Wish you were here, Dame Barbara. And the eerie thing is that it feels like she is here, perhaps hiding behind a salmon pink chaise longue and about to appear in a puff of talcum powder, shouting ‘Cooee, darling’.
Because Camfield Place, near Hatfield, where Barbara Cartland lived for 50 extraordinary years, is exactly how it was when she died in 2000, aged 98.
‘Nothing should be moved in the house from the way I left it,’ she wrote in a document, How To Open Camfield Place To The Public. ‘Cars carrying the public will come in through the main gates… coaches
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