After years as a teacher and a journalist, Georgia Beaufort has assumed a commanding new role: proprietress of Badminton House in Gloucestershire, an estate with deep roots in an Arcadian past.
The Duchess of Beaufort and Matt Ramsden, Master of the Duke of Beaufort’s Hunt, tend to the hounds in the North Hall, which was rebuilt in 1740 by James Gibb. The 1734 painting is by John Wootton, who was a groom at Badminton before he became an accomplished sporting artist., December 2019
Georgia Beaufort and I are in the Yellow Room, a.k.a. the Duchess’s Sitting Room, at Badminton House, Gloucestershire, the seat of the Somerset family since the 1600s, on a sunny Tuesday in early May. In two days’ time, she is expecting 800 for drinks, then 33 guests to stay for the weekend, as well as 80 for lunch and 40 for dinner on Saturday, but the duchess is so happily relaxed that this visitor has to assume she has been meditating on Ovid’sfor weeks prior.
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