The Earl of Cardigan has made up with his son who sold the family’s 16th century mansion. David Brudenell-Bruce, 67, said he forgave Viscount Savernake after the 38-year-old sold Tottenham House in Wiltshire in 2008. Lord Cardigan had been removed from running the stunning Savernake Forest Estate after he moved to the US and got … Read more
MEMOIR Mapperton Moments by John Montagu (Skyscraper £10, 224 pp) Leaking house, leaking pond, leaking puppy, leaking father… these touching diaries of John Montagu (now the 11th Earl of Sandwich), chronicling his father’s slow decline into Alzheimer’s disease and death over eight years, have them all, in dripping abundance. Drip, drip, drip. It’s January 1987 … Read more
Lady Diana’s brother Charles Spencer has shared a touching tribute to their aunt Lady Anne Wake Walker, who died on Monday night at the age of 99. The 9th Earl Spencer took to Instagram to share a childhood photograph of his aunt and father, John Spencer, playing on the family’s estate of Althorp in 1925, … Read more