[ May, 2013 ] Our tour to England and Wales went to a mansion called Chatsworth House.
The entrance fee was 16 pounds, which is not cheap, but in the house and in the garden, there were many many people.
I saw one grandmother explaining the details of each room to her grandson eagerly.
In the garden many families were having a picnic.
This site has more than 1800 acres of land and they have more than 1 million visitors every year.
The most interesting thing was a violin.
I won’t tell you why, but if you go there, look for a violin 🙂
This is a home of an aristocrat, Duke of Devonshire and his family.
They are still there.
I wondered who they are and looked up.
Apparently, there has been a powerful family called Cavendish since 16th century and this Duke is a part of it.
Now 12th Duke is the landlord here.
I don’t know if he is ‘an open aristocrat’ who wants to get nearer to ordinary people, or a go-getter using his own house, but anyway, I did not like the fact that this kind of privileged class still exists.
