For the past half-century, the fourth Aga Khan has been refining that work on both spiritual and society planes. His continued racing wins keep him in the very top echelon of the bloodstock world. In 2012, he won a record-breaking seventh Prix de Diane, France’s most prestigious horse race, held at Chantilly, a 16th-century Domaine near his estate on which he’s spent £40 million, restoring it to its ‘princely lustre’.