Boughton - The House, Its People and Its Collections

Richard Buccleuch; Fritz von der Schulenburg (Photographer); John Scott (Editor)

In this sumptuous portrait of the house known as 'the English Versailles', the Duke of Buccleuch sets the scene with a history of his ancestors, the Montagus of Boughton, who acquired the manor in Northamptonshire in the reign of Henry VIII.Ralph, 1st Duke of Montagu (1638-1709), Charles II's envoy to L...