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Inside Britain’s Great Houses with Eleanor Doughty: Heirs, Duty and the Modern Aristocracy

Journalist and author Eleanor Doughty has spent over a decade gaining rare access to Britain’s great estates. In her Sunday Telegraph column and her book Heirs and Graces, she explores inheritance not as privilege alone - but as duty, burden and identity. In this episode, Violet ...  Show more

Lady Anne Glenconner: From Holkham to Mustique and Everything in Between

Lady Anne Glenconner has lived more lives than most of us could imagine. Born at Holkham Hall, Maid of Honour at Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation, and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret for over three decades, Lady Anne stood at the centre of royal history — and at the creation ...  Show more

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