House of fun

Polesden Lacey, Surrey

‘I want a room I can entertain Maharajas in,’ was the brief laid out by Margaret Greville, owner of Polesden Lacey. After buying the house in 1907, the Grevilles employed the architects of the Ritz hotel to design a home to impress, and that they did. A perusal of Margaret’s guest book, still on display, reveals an impressive roster of the most significant names of early 20th-century)