The 11th Duke of Devonshire, who died on Monday aged 84, achieved a lifetime's ambition by securing the future of his family seat, Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, making it self-financing while ...
What do you wear to the crowning of an Emperor? In 1856, the Countess of Granville didn’t need to think too much about it. She was to accompany her husband’s uncle, the 6th Duke of Devonshire, to Tsar ...
LONDON - For anyone with a Black Friday and/or Cyber Monday hangover, Heywood Hill has the answer. The beloved Mayfair bookshop, where the novelist Nancy Mitford once worked behind the counter and ...
Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, and the last surviving Mitford sister, died today at the age of 94. Her granddaughter Stella Tennant considered their family legacy in a November 2010 issue of ...
Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, once said that his favourite picture at Chatsworth was Nicolas Poussin's masterpiece of a joyous group of three young shepherds coming upon a grave, and ...