Written in THE STARS
Standing on the grand staircase of her home, Knowsley Hall, near Liverpool, Caroline Stanley, Countess of Derby, remembers when she met her husband. “I first met Edward twice in the same day, over the railings at Royal Ascot and then, to both our surprise, later that day at a wedding in Scotland,” laughs Caroline. “Of course, I had no idea what hand fate was dealing me, or that this house came with the ring.” The house itself is the arrestingly handsome ancestral home of Caroline’s husband, Edward, 19th Earl of Derby. Having unexpectedly inherited the somewhat forlorn pile from a childless uncle and aunt,
