![]() "Here you were never served out of the same glass twice, so when you were having drinks or round the piano after supper the footmen would be bringing up more drinks and more Champagne, fresh glasses the whole time," she said. 80,000 worked in the Dig for Victory campaign, and there was a home guard here just like Dad's Army."īut as well as being struck by the war effort at Highclere, she was also taken by the glamour and the parties at the estate once the financial clouds had blown away. ![]() There was the Women's Land Army, some of them came and worked here in the gardens. "It was an extraordinary thing to explore. This country was at war in a way I hadn't understood in terms of how people had to live, how people's resources were nationalised," Lady Carnarvon said. "Reading about that I just found it extraordinary. ![]() The book takes the castle, Lady Catherine, and her family, through into the 30s, the economic depression, the abdication of Edward VIII, and then against the backdrop of the Second World War, when it took on a new importance. ![]() She added: "Geordie's grandfather went to see his trustees who said 'don't bother, give up, sell up and go away. ![]()
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