‘I’ve spent almost a decade trying to drag my 300-year-old country estate into the 21st century’
It was Sept 13, 1774 and Dr Samuel Johnson, the writer, was making a note in his journal: “We came...
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Inveraray Castle: ‘Our Scottish estate spans 75,000 acres – it takes 10 industries to keep it afloat’
Her late mother-in-law, Iona, Duchess of Argyll, certainly got her hands dirty. When she married Ian Campbell, Marquess of Lorne,...
‘My father put Britain’s stately homes on the map – now our future is far from certain’
Remarkably, so did everyone else. In 1956, Edward Montagu opened the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, “and if you look...
