‘I once lived in a 12-bedroom Hollywood castle – it was absurd’
Have you done alterations?Nothing major. Because of climate change Los Angeles now has mosquitoes, so I had to put screens...
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‘I couldn’t avoid inheriting our 1,900-acre country estate – even if I wanted to’
“I worked in film for a long time,” says Lord Hinchingbrooke when asked whether he intended to become a social...
‘Our awkward home has increased £224,000 in value – was our budget renovation worth it?’
The renovation began upstairs when Paul was on furlough leave during the pandemic. He converted a small, disused space that must...
‘We scrubbed mould off every wall in our £150k renovation – was it worth it?’
Telegraph Money asked Julia Kendell interior designer for Kendell + Co and expert at the Homebuilding & Renovating Show to...
‘I grew up on a Welsh farm, now I’m a duchess running a 10,000-acre estate’
What was your first home?A farmhouse on the Welsh border. We did bed and breakfast and my job, aged seven,...
‘People were furious when I started charging to visit my Devon village’
On the north Devon coast there’s a stunningly beautiful, authentic village frozen in time. But while England is not short...
‘There are huge political issues involved with living here’
The approach to the Welbeck estate is detectably ducal. After a row of almshouses, an old hermitage and a community...
‘We bought two flats in Kew but our boys want to live in Hackney – what do we do?’
Lee Shortt thought she and her husband were doing the right thing when they bought two flats five years ago...
‘It’s totally nuts that the eldest son inherits the estate – so we scrapped the rules on our 60-room country house’
For 200 years, Cambo House, near St Andrews in Fife, had passed neatly from father to son down the Erskine...
‘We left London for our 230-year-old family estate during lockdown – and never looked back’
Boughton House has been the English home of the Duke of Buccleuch since 1790, and is now one of the...
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