Chatsworth House in Derbyshire reopens after £15m facelift, Daily Mail Online
Charming Chatsworth: Derbyshire’s grand dame of a stately home shines forward after a captivating £15million top-to-toe overhaul
Updated: 09:31 BST, eight March two thousand ten
In the late Thirties Noel Coward gently lampooned the dishevelled state of the superb British country houses, singing: . if the Van Dycks have to go, and we pawn the Bechstein Grand, we’ll stand, by the Stately Homes of England.”