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Chatsworth - The House

Chatsworth - The House
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Chatsworth is one of England's grandest and most visited great houses. It is also one of the best loved, because although it is a palace in size and magnificence, it is at the same time a real family home. This is the inside story of Chatsworth, told by the person who knows it best.

With an enviable grasp of history and a huge talent to amuse, the present Duchess takes the reader on a personal tour of the house, visiting the private as well as the public rooms. She also goes behind the scenes to explain the management of the household and the work that is needed to keep it going.

The Duchess describes the fourteen generations of Cavendishes who have lived here - building, decorating and buying - and how each has stamped its own personality on the place.

Illustrated with archive pictures and over 200 newly commissioned colour photographs, many taken in the private rooms which are not on view to visitors, this book is a funny, informative and engrossing portrait of Chatsworth, and of the family with which the house and its contents are intertwined.

ALL COPIES ARE SIGNED.

A hardback edition containing 240 pages. 26cm x 30cm.