The cream rises

RM SOTHEBY’S, CLIVEDEN HOUSE. 8 JULY

A cut-crystal bed, with associated mirrors and throne, sparkled at auction earlier this month, but no glamour could beat the prize that was the Union Flag flown by HMS Spartiate at the Battle of Trafalgar

Estimate £15,000-£20,000 Sold £32,000+BP An evocative, delicate watercolour, The North Wind, came from the brush of free spirit Emily Brontë, author of Wuthering Heights and one-third of the world-fam

These four glorious properties need only a modicum of tender loving care and offer great rewards to the far-sighted

The piece I’d never part with

Sennowe Park, Norfolk, part 2 The home of Charles and Virginia Temple-Richards