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  • The English Home

    Spontaneous CHARM

    Sep 01, 2021 4 minutes
    FEATURE CLAIR WAYMAN PHOTOGRAPHY RAY MAIN

    Emily Todhunter’s eyes light up when she describes life at the Wiltshire country house she shares with husband Manoli Olympitis and a menagerie of animals, including dogs, cats, horses, chickens and doves. The house is rarely quiet as the couple’s friends and three grown-up children visit regularly, and whilst Emily loves this, she is at her happiest pottering in the garden or tending to her horses in the stables. “The house is situated in a beautiful spot on the edges of the Marlborough Downs, so I can ride my horse or walk the dogs along The Ridgeway, through unspoilt countryside, without catching

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