LIVING THE DOWNTON ABBEY LIFE TODAY!

What is it really like to live in a stately home today? How has life in these magnificent houses changed since the world of ’Downton Abbey’? In ’Sundays at the Chateau’, chatelaine Stephanie answers all your questions about life in the 16th century Chateau de Lalande, in the heart of rural France ❤️ Affiliate links: To learn more about the destruction of country houses, I recommend ’England’s Lost Houses’ by Giles Worsley. It’s heartbreaking but beautiful. You can find it here: For Evelyn Waugh’s beautiful novel, ’Brideshead Revisited’, click here: And for the stunning television adaptation starring Laurence Olivier and a young Jeremy Irons, click here: And, for more information about the requisitioning of stately homes during the war, there’s ’Requisitioned: The British Country House in the Second World War’ by John Martin Robinson.