Duke of devonshire

Hugh Grosvenor's property group Grosvenor had wanted 141 tenants from Walden House in the Belgravia area of London to move 12 miles away to make room for luxury apartments.

The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and their staff have been rummaging through the attics of the greatest English stately home, Chatsworth, and are now offering 1,419 lots of treasures through a Sotheby’s auction, October 1-7. The Devonshire Borghese table, an Italian carved giltwood console table with a serpentine alabaster veneered top, mid-18th century, est. £40,000-70,000. Grab some history and fly to Chatsworth now, or simply order the Sotheby’s catalog. Fat and juicy, it is highly…

A decade-long restoration has brought the 500-year-old house into the 21st century

BEFORE women’s rights fuelled a global debate, there were the Mitford girls.

Arthur Valerian Wellesley, died peacefully at his home in Hampshire last month. His coffin was today carried by soldiers from the Yorkshire Regiment - formerly The Duke of Wellington's Regiment

The Duke of Devonshire, who has a £500million fortune and a 297-room home, said he wants to give up his peerage because the 'aristocracy is dead'.

Download this stock image: Chatsworth House in Derbyshire which is to re-open after an extensive facelift. Pictured are The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire - C7EH7P from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

Steven Meisel was the first to capture Stella Tennant’s striking beauty for the pages of British Vogue back in December 1993

Download this stock image: Chatsworth House in Derbyshire which is to re-open after an extensive facelift. Pictured are The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire - C7EH5M from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

Below, ​Evelyn Fitzmaurice, Duchess of Devonshire (1870-1960), painted in Hardwick Hall, 1950, by Edward Irvine Halliday (1902–1984).