Necker Island (British Virgin Islands) world, the challenge begins at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with the top 10 new innovations progressing to the finals at Necker Island where Branson joins the judging panel along with technology figures and investors from Silicon Valley. The Necker Cup, an exhibition tennis tournament held at the end of the tennis season, has been held on the island annually since 2012. In February 2017, former U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle visited Necker as guests of Sir Richard Branson. On August 22, 2011, The Great House burned down in a blaze believed to be
Albertine Necker de Saussure women's sense of themselves. She wanted to change this. Albertine also wrote a biography of her friend Germaine de Staël for the first collected edition of de Staël's works, in 1821. In addition, Albertine authorized a French translation of August Wilhelm Schlegel's "Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst und Literatur "(1809-1811). Albertine Necker de Saussure's work "l'Education Progressive" is acknowledged as an educational classic and was influential in nineteenth-century England. She was active in the Groupe de Coppet, a salon that flourished between the French Revolution and the early years of the Restoration,and she has been credited with spreading the spirit of