Lady victoria leatham biography of barack

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    Lady Victoria Leatham

    British antiques expert

    Lady Victoria Diana LeathamMBE (née&#;Cecil; born 28 June ) is an antiques expert and television personality. She was the chatelaine of Burghley House from to

    Career

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    Leatham began working for Sotheby's in Bond Street, concentrating on the East of England. She joined the BBC Antiques Roadshow and was a regular contributor to the programme for 20 years.[1][2] On the death of her father in , with the marquessate passing to a Canadian uncle, she and her husband became the custodians of Burghley House for 25 years, increasing annual visitor numbers from 48, to 97, by , before handing it over to their daughter, Miranda Rock.[3]

    In the Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to the community in Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire.[4]

    Positions

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    • Honorary colonel of Royal Anglian Regiment (–)
    • Deputy Lieutenant
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      All there is in Heaven and Hell: The Story of Burghley House

      The Tudor Great Hall avoided the 5th Earl’s classicisation, perhaps because it was simply too big – soaring from the ground to the roofline, with two full-length windows and one mighty fireplace, which one wonders could have been enough even then to really warm the place for state banquets, such as that for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of which a drawing can be seen in the room today. Another survivor of the Tudor house is the similarly lofty kitchen, now merely a museum del av helhet. Both sit on the east side of the house, and tail off into a wing extending to the north (once matched by a twin that would have formed a symmetrical ‘E’, but was demolished bygd the 9th Earl to allow a better view of the parkland) and auxiliary buildings – former stables and barns turned in offices, gardeners’ sheds, and some small business units let to craftsmen.

      It’s a tenant of one such workshop, Anthony Beech, whom we meet, along with long-s

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      Stamford Pride

      It’s the Olympic performance which inspired a nation and the film Chariots of Fire, released 40 years ago, too. This month we find out more about the 6th Marquess of Exeter and how he competed in the Olympics then sought to unite Europe by bringing the first post-war games to Britain&#;

      Should you let the truth get in the way of a good story? I must confess there have been moments when I’ve embellished in print for the purpose of spinning a good yarn, and the film director David, Lord Puttnam, appeared similarly minded when he directed the film Chariots of Fire, which was released 40 years ago.

      The film ostensibly featured the 6th Marquess of Exeter David George Brownlow Cecil, portrayed on screen as Lord Andrew Lindsay, played by Nigel Havers. In fact, there was more than a few liberties taken with the actual events. The lack of accuracy led the Marquess to politely decline involvement in the film’s production and he expressed a preference for his character’s name