SPEAKING TO US FROM HIGHCLERE CASTLE LORD AND LADY CARNARVON ON HOW THEIR MAGNIFICENT ESTATE OPENED ITS DOORS TO YOUNG WARTIME EVACUEES AND FUTURE PLANS TO MARK V.E. DAY
‘Picking ourselves up with resilience and marching on is now as relevant today as it was then, so the plan is to remember how our parents and grandparents laughed, danced and celebrated the end of the war’
It is one of Britain’s most distinguished stately homes, visited by royalty – including the Queen – throughout history and the magnificent setting for the hit drama Downton Abbey .
But during the Second World War, Highclere Castle near Newbury, Hampshire, opened its doors to some of London’s most vulnerable as it played a leading role in welcoming child evacuees to live within the safety of its towers and turrets.
Throughout the war, the family seat of the
