Tatler UK - 07.2019

SOCIETY

Stonewall Park The centre of Kent’s

social solar system is in Edenbridge,

where Rupert and Catherine Fleming’s

drawing room – now boasting newly

painted canary-yellow walls – is always

host to lots of other Flemings, such

as Benjama and Rory. The Earl and

Countess of Hopetoun, and Kilks

and Miles Montgomerie, are also

all regulars.

Barnbougle Recently revamped,

Lord Dalmeny’s Barnbougle Castle

on the Rosebery Estates is where

arty sorts are to be found. The draw-

ing room’s gilded interiors are said to

be where Martha, Lady Sitwell and

the taxidermist Emma Hawkins

congregate come nightfall.

Houghton Hall It’s the drawing

room on which all eyes were trained

at the beginning of the year, where

Britain’s gossip queens would give

Clockwise from

above, the drawing

room at Barnbougle;

the North Wing

drawing room at

Houghton Hall,

where David and

Rose Cholmondeley

entertain; and

Somerleyton’s

drawing room

SUPER SALON

Rupert and Catherine

Fleming’s drawing room

at Stonewall Park

Away from the social snakes

and ladders, there are only

four drawing rooms to be

seen in this summer

BYS TA NDE R

anything to be a fly on its art-

adorned walls. Regular visitors to

the Marquess and Marchioness of

Cholmondeley include the Earl and

Countess of Durham (Rose’s sister,

Marina), the Hon Sophia Hesketh

and, until recently, the Cambridges.

Somerleyton Suffolk socialites swoon

when they pass the enormous stuffed

polar bears in the hall to make it

into Lord and Lady Somerleyton’s

drawing room. Davina and Tom

Barber are great friends, as are the

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,

who pop down from Anmer Hall –

after all, nothing leaves these wood-

panelled walls.

if walls

could

talk

PHOTOGRAPH: INSTAGRAM/@HOUGHTON_HALL; DYLAN THOMAS

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