Anyone have rich conservative relatives who like to deny their wealth?

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Or even get angry at you when you bring up the possibility that they may in fact be wealthy? I've got 2 sets of uncles who are both fairly wealthy, one more than the other, and both of whom are conservative to some degree, one MUCH more so than the other. Both of them seem to like to play mind games with the rest of the family and if the topic of wealth somehow comes up they seem to like to play the fool. "What me? We aren't wealthy" And there is a tone of "how dare you suggest we are", even when the topic naturally arises. Often this comes about in our family when it comes to splitting a bill for something.

Often the rich members of the family want to do something grand and showy for our grandfather, and now late grandmother, and want the rest of us to chip in. When we suggested we should all pay according to our ability, instead of their idea of a very high flat rate, they would get all high and mighty and bothered about the whole thing. Like it's your fault you don't have as much money as we do and how dare you bring up the fact that we have a lot, we hardly have any (*rolls eyes*). This has come up more than once. Recently there was a conversation between one of the rich uncles and our grandfather in which the rich uncle suggested he could get X mount of money for his house which anyone who knew anything about real estate in this city would know is undervaluing the property but AT LEAST 2x! But of course you could never bring up this fact, he would just get angry.

Anyone else have similar relatives?