AT HER MAJESTIC STATELY HOME LADY BATHURST ON FRIENDLY GHOSTS, FOUR-LEGGED COMPANIONS AND POLO WITH THE PRINCES
She’s the chatelaine of an 18th-century stately home set in beautiful parkland, with a polo club, and yet Countess Bathurst “sort of forgets” that she has a title.
“I’ve got a wicked sense of humour. I swear, I can tell a filthy joke. I have childish thoughts and long may it continue, frankly,” says the lady of the house, who has lived at Cirencester Park with her husband, the 9th Earl Bathurst, for 26 years.
“I wasn’t destined to become a Countess. I was always going to marry a farmer,” she says. But it’s a responsibility she takes very seriously.
HISTORIC HOUSE
The magnificent estate has been in the Bathurst family for 327 years and most of the 15,000 acres of historic parkland, dotted with follies and designed in the early 18th century, are shared with the public. However, they have
