The countess of carnarvon

Who do you live with and where? I have lived at Highclere Castle in Hampshire for 25 years, with my husband, Geordie [8th Earl of Carnarvon], and our many animals. We have horses, sheep and rare-breed

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Most of us will never know what it’s like to live in a country pile – the kind with a mile-long carriage drive, acres of parkland dotted with deer, and gilded rooms stuffed with Chippendale furniture

Iris climbed down from the donkey cart that had given her a lift from Penzance station, being careful not to ladder her best stockings, and walked up the narrow lane to Nantolven Farm. There was no si