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Owning a country pile isn’t all champagne and Saltburn-style debauchery, finds our writer on a tour of Northamptonshire

Drayton House - where the movie Saltburn was filmed - has become a tourist hotspot since the Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi movie's release.

What events happened on 28 March in history? We round up the events, births and deaths…

TALK OF THE TOWN: Since playing an expectant mum in the film Pieces Of A Woman, Vanessa Kirby, 33, cant stop handing out pregnancy and birthing advice on the set of Pieces Of A Woman.

If youve ever watched Bridgerton or Downton Abbey, I fear I may have to puncture your fantasies. For as Ive discovered the daily reality is rather different.

Country Life Trending: The Library at Chatsworth House. ©Country Life Credit: Paul Barker/Country Life/IPC+Syndication By the early 19th century, the library-living room had become an essential element of the country house. John Martin Robinson looks at the development of this space and the wild enthusiasm for books that encouraged it. The library was — together with the drawing room and dining room — one of the three principal living interiors in the English Regency country ...

What is it about follies that we find so enticing? Perhaps it is their variety – real ruins, fake ruins, monumental columns, ornamental cottages, dovecotes and even gazebos can all be encompassed by the term. Perhaps it is the fact that many are essays in ‘pure architecture’, built with no function in mind other than to delight and entertain. Or perhaps it is the hubris inherent in the name, which calls to mind the aspirations of those who built them – invariably eccentric and sometimes...