Trust the Brits to make a "cooking video" like this! I've GOT to share it. (Btw everybody who has watched ITV's "Jeeves and Wooster" knows this house intimately. MUCH better than the painfully corny "Downton Abbey".)
Mary Berry visits Highclere Castle, the real-life Downton Abbey, home to the eighth Earl and Countess of Carnarvon and renowned as the setting for some of the most lavish and influential weekend house parties in history. Mary discovers what it takes to keep a home like this going in today's world, meeting everyone from the family to the house staff and the estate's loyal posse of gamekeepers.
There are so many aspects to this. One is how the Carnavon family managed to keep the house through the times and even restore it to its old glory. Another one is how undemanding Royalty have become since Edwardian times (that's tongue-in cheek-ish), yet another one, how a woman in her eighties can look quite THAT stunning without appearing the slightest bit "Joan-Collins-ish". Her biography might shed a bit of light on the reason why - I, being an old reactonary, think. But there is much, much more.
Enjoy!
