{"id":51388,"date":"2017-04-09T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/at-home-at-highclere-entertaining-at-the-real-downton-abbey-by-the-countess-of-carnarvon-digested-read\/"},"modified":"2017-04-09T23:02:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T16:02:10","slug":"at-home-at-highclere-entertaining-at-the-real-downton-abbey-by-the-countess-of-carnarvon-digested-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/at-home-at-highclere-entertaining-at-the-real-downton-abbey-by-the-countess-of-carnarvon-digested-read\/","title":{"rendered":"At Home at Highclere: Entertaining at the Real Downton Abbey by the Countess of Carnarvon \u2013 digested read"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\u2018In the autumn, we have people to shoot. I expect you do, too\u2019Welcome! Strictly entre nous, times have been a bit tight here at Highclere since Downton Abbey stopped filming, so we\u2019re having to let in a lot more riffraff. I\u2019d thought we were scraping the barrel with Hugh Bonneville! So this coffee-table book \u2013 available from the Highclere gift shop \u2013 will be a wonderful souvenir for those of you who are never going to get an invitation to stay in the private quarters. Fiona, 8th Countess of CarnarvonOctober 1866: Benjamin Disraeli was a Victorian Conservative politician who achieved position rather than being born into it. Oh very dear. Despite him being so common and a terrible chancellor of the exchequer \u2013 looking back, it was a bad idea to put someone with no money in charge of the nation\u2019s finances \u2013 Henry Howard Molyneux Turnbull Asser Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon invited him to stay. The Countess of Carnarvon smiled sweetly at Disraeli and then went to talk to Lord and Lady Cranborne (later to become Lord and Lady Salisbury) whose company she found very congenial. The weekend wasn\u2019t a great success, but noblesse oblige and the servants discharged their duties with the utmost courtesy. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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