Earl of Cardigan is being sued for £27,000 by barrister who helped him stop sale of family portraits aristocrat was being forced to auction to clear £2m overdraft Lawyer Henry Hendron helped stop the Earl of Cardigan’s portraits being sold Eight family portraits were almost sold by trustees to clear a £2 million overdraft The … 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