Ken Follett's lights and shadows: the billionaire life of a best-selling writer but with tragic episodes such as the death of his son
With more than 170 million books sold in more than 80 countries and translated into more than 30 languages, Ken Follett (72) belongs to the Olympus of the most successful authors of the last three decades alongside Stephen King, J.K. Rowling or John Grisham. Without a doubt, the pillars of the earth was the beginning of a meteoric career that made him a billionaire. The Welsh just published the thriller never (Penguin random House).
On several occasions, the author has appeared on the Forbes list with a profit of $14 million a year, which, between pitches and flutes, has given him to treasure today the nothingness of 55 million dollars. He invested very well. The pandemic was confined to his cottage in the small village of Knebworth in Hertfordshire County, where Geri Halliwell, Mauricio Pochettino and George Michael and Simon Cowell came to live. The writer bought the property in 1997 for just over 1.1 million pounds, has large gardens, a tennis court and, of course, his Rolls Royce at the door.
He openly confesses that he loves being rich and prefers to have a luxury car over a Nobel, but he does not forget that when he was 19 years old he lived in a room in London with his wife, Mary Elson, and his son Emanuele. Soon after his daughter Marie-Claire arrived. And I was happy. It is not known who his first great love was, but since 1984 he has been married to Barbara, a political activist who represented the Labour Party in London and who has brought three children from a previous marriage. The couple also owns a multi-storey house in London's Soho, although they tread little in the city because they are both lovers of tranquillity.
However, his list of properties included a dream mansion in Jumbey Bay Island in the Caribbean (Antigua and Barbuda) of 1,000 square metres, eight rooms and a private beach that he put up for sale for $25 million in 2015. It is in this house that his son lived 13 years ago one of the great tragedies of his life when he became a widower on a honeymoon because his wife, Sara Hughes, died after a bad fall on her way out of the shower. The poor fortune once again boiled in the writer's life when, in 2018, his son died of fulminant leukemia at the age of 49. That plunged him into deep sadness.
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Lover of the good life, he cannot live without making tailor-made suits in some of the exquisite tailors of Savile Road where the British monarchy and celebrities from all over the world pay a minimum of 10,000 euros per design. And he has them in three colors: marine blue for interviews, grey for afternoons and black for dinners. He also loves luxury cars. The Rolls Royce is among his favorites, as was the Bentley at the time for which he paid about 300,000 euros and left parked in the garage because he was nervous about the noise he made in the morning when he started it.
Although said so he seems to be a pedantic person, Ken Follett has exquisite adams, is tremendously educated and doesn't mind dressing informally to go for a few beers in pubs near his home. He is a guy who easily accommodates any situation. He loves to attend the theater and play in the band Damm right I got the Blues.
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