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Does the Duke of Devonshire really want to be my friend – or is he just after my bank details?

Chatsworth's marketing is the most duplicitous and effective I have ever known

26 July 2014

9:00 AM

26 July 2014

9:00 AM

The Chatsworth estate, Derby-shire. I am overwhelmed by marketing literature. I am prostrate. I am weeping.

I am staying in one of the Duke of Devonshire’s barns, renovated into a one-bedroom ‘cottage’ with no interior doors. Maybe it was home to a horse once, maybe not; I do not know. I am a short walk from the Chatsworth Estate Farm Shop and Café, a longer walk from a branch of the Devonshire Arms, and 20 minutes from the Cavendish Restaurant, which is definitely in the stables at Chatsworth.

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