Although it is not a patch on the Duke of Marlboroughs magnificent Blenheim Palace, 200-room Duncombe Park, an 18th-century pile set in 14,000 acres at Helmsley, North Yorkshire, is one of the great estates of the North.
However, the two piles have something in common. Both Marlborough and the owner of lovingly restored Duncombe, Lord Feversham, spawned wayward sons and they both took steps to ensure their first-born offspring could not inherit control of their respective vast family fortunes.
For following Peter Fevershams death last year at 64, I learn that his eldest son and heir, Jasper now the seventh baron has been cut out of his 46million will.
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