‘It is often very difficult for people who are not wealthy to realise just how tiring being extremely rich can be’
On the sultry night of 8 July 1961, when Christine Keeler and John Profumo frolicked together in the swimming pool at Cliveden, little did anyone suspect that just 52 years later, my reclusive billionaire property-dealing husband would acquire the landmark Buckinghamshire property. Thus did I become the latest in a long line of fascinating Cliveden chatelaines.
In the thin light of a January morning in 1668, the Duke of Buckingham galloped headlong to fight a duel. Moments later, the Earl of Shaftesbury lay mortally wounded and his soon-to-be widow, Anna Maria, was free to elope with Buckingham to build Cliveden. Though history has not been kind to Buckingham and Anna Maria, they did create the most fabulous gardens that pulsed with life and energy in the dappled twilight of a late summer’s afternoon.
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