CHRISTINA’S GIRL

Athina Onassis, 33

THE only surviving descendant of her grandfather, Aristotle Onassis, a Greek shipping magnate and the second husband of Jackie Kennedy, she was left an estate estimated to be worth £2 billion.

Athina’s childhood was marred first by the death of her mother, Christina (above), when she was three, and then by a muchpublicised legal battle over the control of the estate.

Her childhood love for horses provided valuable respite and she started competing as a teenager.

Athina, who has twice broken vertebrae in her back in falls, now runs a stable in the Netherlands.