When Rebecca Wilcox is pottering around her 18th-century farmhouse in the Surrey countryside, she often recalls the happy times spent at her mother Dame Esther Rantzen’s idyllic home in the New Forest. Rebecca and her husband Jim Moss moved out of London three years ago and, as soon as she saw this property, with its low-beamed ceilings and views of fields, she couldn’t help but notice its similarities to Dame Esther’s own slice of paradise.
“I feel like I have re-created that here,” Rebecca says as she invites to her home for this exclusive interview and photoshoot with sons Benjamin, 11, and nine-year-old Alexander. “My mum’s house is where Jim proposed, where we got married and where I went after both kids were
