COUNTRY & GARDEN: Country Matters - Never in your wildest dreams

From: The Independent - London | Date: February 10, 2001| Author: Duff Hart-Davis | Copyright information

One night in June 1992, after a day's work and a dinner party, Caroline Magnus returned to her London flat to find a long, brown envelope awaiting her. The document inside left her "completely stunned": she had to read it three times to comprehend that it was the will of her aunt- by-marriage, Lady Magnus-Allcroft, and that the old lady had left her Stokesay Court in Shropshire.

To call Stokesay a large country house would be like saying the centre of the sun is fairly warm. It is a v...

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