Luxury Estates of the Rothschilds - Secrets of Historic Britain - History Documentary

[Music] from Renaissance style Shadows Grand Country Estates Architectural Glass masterpieces these are the remarkable homes simply breathtaking and magnificent landmarks one day my son all this will be yours at the very heart of Britain's spectacular history I have never seen one like this join me I need to get there with all speed onwards driver oh and a host of celebrities oh Cy with a passion for the past Kaboom wish me luck as we travel the length and breadth of the nation it is between the walls and with unparalleled behind the scenes access from the highest

Heights now I'm through my blind panic to the deepest depths we'll uncover the secrets oh my goodness still hidden Within These breathtaking [Music] buildings these are the places that nobody else gets to see and explore the riches how spectacular and Treasures of one of our most loved institutions this is an amazing Story come on I want to know the end I want to know the end welcome to the secrets of the National Trust sitting in the heart of the English Countryside is a thrilling surprise a glamorous French Shadow so rich in Treasures it drew kings

queens and princes from around the world through its front doors inside in these Sumptuous and luxurious rooms a multi-millionaire would host extravagant Suarez for a who's who of 19th Century High Society home to three generations of the wealthy Rothschild family this pleasure Palace was created with just one intent to surprise and Delight the visitors who flocked here and boy does it do just that welcome to wesden Mana by discovering secret staircases oh my goodness revealing sparkling guest lists the Queen Victoria is everybody allowed to leave through it like this absolutely not and hearing from both

family so he's my great great great uncle and the Creator himself weeds will spread over the gardens oh we'll uncover a man whose imagination was fueled by tragedy filling the Gap that she'd left and who found Comfort how spectacular only in in the happiness of others also tonight oh rather sharp writer and journalist Clive AER visits the breathtaking new house on the estate with Lord Roth's child so this house is full of things that you've collected it really is a very large part of my life Wow presenter Alison Hammond parties at poon Lacy so you

actually could get much closer and writer Oz Clark gets a little scare we haven't broken it don't worry it's only the Mentor when a wson treasure gets a little TLC that's scw is very [Music] precious when you're out for a jaunt in rural buckinghamshire the very last thing you expect to be confronted by is the French Renaissance but as you approach Wan's elegantly turreted Shadow well it's exactly like stepping into a fairy tale built in the 1870s its French architect Gabrielle iay deayer had worked on some of France's classic 16th century shadows and bequeathed to

the National Trust in 1957 The Manor and its Gardens now enchant over 400,000 visitors a year but for all its outward glory wodson and its estate is largely the creation of one man who was tragically widowed at the age of 27 and devoted the rest of his life to creating it that man was Baron Ferdinand der Roth's child a member of the super rich banking Dynasty from humble beginnings the Rothschild's Financial Empire expanded across Europe both dazzling and offending High Society with their new money and extravagant spending Ferdinand included I'm meeting the trust pipper Shirley

at the front lobby lovely to meet you we go as she takes me on an exclusive tour showing me the VIP treatment alist victorians would receive upon their arrival he tell me about Baron Ferdinand it was a a particularly amazing kind of man to want to build a place like this I think he was an extraordinary man in in lots of ways he was a complete kind of perfectionist and he was fascinated by arts and culture and architecture and he wanted a place where he could bring people to entertain them so the extraordinary thing really

about bston is that he starts from a completely blank canvas this was a bare Hill when he began and he created this whole world both for his entertaining and to act as a as a setting for the extraordinary collection which he was putting together if you were invited here to be a house guest when would you come how long would you stay you do one of the famous Saturday to Monday parties which which is what the weekend was known as in the in the 19th century so you'd arrive on Saturday and then you'd leave on

Monday morning okay so I'm going for the weekend what would I have done where would I have started my weekend well you'd have started in the red drawing room so should we go and have a look I'm I have to tell you I'm not really a party animal but then when I see this out I I think I could become one come on as soon as you enter the house you're immediately struck by its opulence whether it's views of Venice captured in the largest Franchesco GUI paintings known to exist or richly decorated mechanical elephants in

glass cases this was an entrance designed to impress oh my goodness so this is your this is your first glimpse of what is there when you come as a guest exactly exactly so this is the first room that you'd see it was the main Gathering space of the house as you could have arrived crimson and gold gold painted ceiling great craftsmanship yes well you know every detail thought about they knew the moment they came in here this is going to be a good weekend and absolutely no expense will be spared absolutely what sort of people

came here well all sorts of people I mean Ferdinand as you or I would if we were putting a house party together you know he started with his friends his family Circle his political Circle and of course also members of the royal family royalty yes I've got the visitors book here so if you want to come and have a little nosy you can see you can see exactly exactly gosh so visitors books are actually quite valuable aren't they they give us a picture of society they're astonishing documents I mean you learn who was here when

who they were with what they might have been talking about completely fascinating many great houses had a visitor's book but few rival won's impressive signatories here what like the treasure it is so here for example that's Edward so that's the future Ed the 7th Edward the 7th Prince of Wales obviously at this point who was a great friend and he came a lot sometimes with a lady presumably not necessarily always with Princess Alexandra there would be other there would be other friends unlike his mother Queen Victoria who was not amused Prince Edward a noted Victorian

Playboy was amused with a variety of Mistresses so what's this one this is AAR of Persia who rather famously came um in 1889 and here ferham was acting really on behalf of the government he was asked to host part of a state visit so this is diplomatic work so this is diplomatic work the Sha of Persia was the king of what is now Iran and as an absolute monarch he was probably used to getting his own way this was a famous occasion when the elephant the mechanical elephant the automatan was pressed into service because the

Sha had this great sulk because the Prince of Wales hadn't come he was supposed to have come right on this party but he hadn't been able to make it so by way of a sop and compensation they turned on turn on the elephant he shouted exactly often made for rulers in India and China this guilt bronze mechanical elephant sometimes known as a sing song would have Enchanted all of ferdinand's guests built by a French clock maker around 1770 it would have taken hundreds if not thousands of manh hours to complete but the results are oh

so worth it the elephant so enchanted the Sha that his Good Humor was completely restored the elephant saved the day elephant saved the day wonderful and this one yes Anna this is another red letter day so the queen that is that's Victoria on yes so that's 1890 and then members of the other members of the royal family so is everybody allowed to leave through it like this absolutely not oh I'm being very careful but this really is a secret of the national TR yes well it's very fragile so most of the time we keep it

carefully I could just sit down with this now for hours absolutely it is just leave me alone for a bit I'm quite happy after lapping up their envious surroundings ferdinand's guests would have made their way to the dining room oh how spectacular and a table fit for a queen this is some supper table so how many would they Ain here well the table is set at the moment for 18 but it could expand for 40 what sort of things do they eat very elaborate meals lots of courses and the food of course here was completely

legendary a grand Victorian dinner was the host's opportunity to show their affluence and style with an endless procession of courses and on Grand occasions sometimes as many as 13 of them Ferdinand would end the meal with an extravagant and indul indulgent flourish often you'd finish with a a Rothchild sule which would be garnished with gold leaf and Queen Victoria was immensely impressed in fact after she came for the famous lunch she sent her own household Chef back to learn the secrets of the Rothchild kitchen and we know that she had two helpings of the beef

which is why she had to go for a little lie down afterwards so what about Ferdinand did he love all this Grandeur and all this entertaining well we think he loved it but on the other hand I mean guests commented that quite often their host be sitting at the head of the table and having water and dry bread and sometimes a little bottle of pills he was also tea Toler of course so his guests would be enjoying the finest but all this just for everybody else but if it's all right with you I'll just have

a glass of water and meon plan no fun being H is [Music] it [Music] filled with fabulous Treasures from around the world the Great and the good flock to wodson Manor seduced by their host's generosity but I want to find out more about who the man was behind all this lavish entertaining so I'm about to meet Hannah daughter of the president Lord Roth's child in The Baron's private room to see if we can shed some light on this secretive character how lovely to see you hello your relationship then to Ferdinand what is he to you

oh well this is this is where it gets difficult I'm going to concentrate now so he's my great great great uncle did you spend much time here as a child yeah not very much no because the house was already open to the public when I when I was growing up so we would be brought around in our kind of Sunday Best as a member of the public but I never grew up here or slept here or anything like that this room here has a different feel to the rest of the house well the furniture is

is elaborate but if anything it's that little bit more friendly it's a bit more cozy this was obviously very special to 309 this room well this was his private study and this is where he used to come to escape if you look around for example you can see lots and lots of family photographs scattered around and what he particularly liked uh rather unusually was collecting paintings of the most glamorous actresses uh that he could find I don't think that's unusual I that's Lord and these are there for example you had Mrs Jordan who is the

if you like the Nicole Kidman or Jennifer Lawrence of her day or you had Emma Hamilton who was you know not an actress but a famous well she was Nelson's mistress wasn't she very much so famous you know kind of scarlet woman perhaps there's a contrasting character here a lavish house into which he invited masses of guests and yet clearly at some point he just had to be on his own and be quiet was he a man of two two halves in a way no very much so what Ferdinand like most of all was being

alone with his works of art and members of his family he invited everybody down because that's what you did but for him I think it was Agony so he didn't really want or need people here he did it in a way as a kind of Duty I think it was a duty it was about expanding the business it was about assimilating into society the r just wanted to be accepted they wanted to make their home was here they loved England and they used presumably their money to help them get into society very much so for

example you know Queen Victoria didn't want to come to lunch here she thought the rells were rather vulgar but she couldn't resist seeing what all the fuss was about so I'm afraid they did use that vulgarity and that ostentatiousness you know to to get people to come here Ferdinand realized hosting lavish parties bought him entry into high society and he wasn't alone at the beginning of the 20th century another social climber Margaret grevel overcame the circumstances of her birth to become the party hostess of the day presenter Alison Hammond has quick stepped her way to

poon Lacy in Su to find out more Margaret grel was the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Scottish Brewer Who Rose to become a sparkling socialized and society's Best Host despite being born out of wedlock Maggie's father fully supported his daughter and bought Pon Lacy as a country treat for her in 1906 to give me an insight into the life of the party hostess of the early 20th century I'm meeting conservation manager Jonathan Marsh thanks for having me yeah you're welcome so pulon Lacy this was Maggie's home her country retreat why was it such a great

place to throw parties absolutely well I guess the first two things are probably setting and lavish Interiors um so amazing views over the Sur landscape and then the interior is being remodeled by the same Architects as the Ritz hotel in London and then it was Maggie herself who really understood her guests was it every weekend pretty much throughout throughout the summer so right from from Ascot in June all the way through and then Christmas was a highlight as well here so what would she greet her guests here that's right so the guests would assemble here

in the evening say 6:00 wait for their host to arrive downstairs she paused for effect uh like any good Hostess uh and then came down to then meet the guests I love the fact that she added drama and I can see she's got champagne absolutely and we know even when Maggie gave the property to the National Trust that there were 144 bottel Ballinger in the cellar really oh wow they did party didn't they absolutely and with the pop of a cork Maggie and her guests would take supper so yeah so this is the dining room

this is beautiful and Edwardian who's who sat around this dinner table including the king and queen of Spain and the dukee of York King George I 6 also spent part of his honeymoon at Poston Lacy with the late Queen Mother so what would they do to entertain the guests all weekend yeah so there was lots of Outdoor Pursuit so actually Maggie had a tennis court um she had golf course and cro as well for an evening's entertainment Maggie's party goers would hit the dance floor right I've got my dancing shoes on so I can learn

some moves so I can really immerse myself in the whole Maggie party experience teaching me a few Edwardian quick steps wow is historical dance choreographer Stuart Maron look at this room with 18 karat gold paneling and a sparkly 4,000 piece Crystal Chandelier the saloon was the perfect place for guests to try the latest fashionable dances why do you love Edwardian dancing so much oh right okay as a dance historian it's the first time that you can see stuff on film it's a new era it's a new century then we start getting hitless dresses it meant

that the women didn't have to have lots of furniture underneath and petticoats and so it was a lot more Freer so you actually could get much closer so when Maggie used to have her parties here what sort of dancing would they have been doing she was a Nick girl it was up to date she would have been doing the one step the two step the three step she would have been doing tango so what are you going to teach me today the E three step and they're still dancing it today okay so we hold hands

start with the outside foot which is one furthest from me and we walk three steps forward one two three and then three steps after a practice it's time to put my moves to some typically Edwardian [Music] music by 1913 Maggie's guest would have been dancing the far more scandalous Tango yes if only these gold gilded wolves could talk that have some gossip about the rich famous who once parted here a century ago Maggie certainly was a Hostess to rival the WTH [Music] Childs back at Walston Manor Baron Ferdinand could throw an extravagant shindig too but

hidden behind the exuberant parties lay a much simpler man hit by a devastating personal tragedy the loss of his beloved wife evina [Music] I'm back in The Baron's more intimate study with his descendant Hannah Roth's child here is the picture of evina his wife which he always kept very close to him and this is his favorite chair yeah I know it's it's Posh isn't it all this glamorous furniture and that was his favorite chair in the entire house she's a statuesque figure isn't she she apparently had a fantastic sense of humor and he absolutely adored

her and her letters are full of these very very good asides so how long were they married they were only married for a year but they knew each other since they were children and how old was he when she died 27 so it's very very young to be widowed and heartbroken evina died in childbirth as did their child and Ferdinand would never marry again but it was it was a really tragic story so I often think when I walk around this house that it is really a testament of love to one woman and one stillborn

baby this was his compensation I think so very much so filling the Gap that she'd left and he brought himself in here and just sort of disappeared yes and then then even better than that so he disappeared in here and then he had a very very secret exit which very few people know about no oh yes I want you to find the secret door still can't see it ah yes I can ah right so so that's there oh my goodness quite cool isn't it snaking staircase go on I'll follow you up I tell you what

you been ready for bed by the time you got there it's a it's a long way up well we are going further than we should have done because actually they blocked off the um the exit to his bedroom so now we're in the Valley's room oh so his Valley's bedroom would have been a bar yes how many staff in in the house in the garden so in the garden there were 160 I know amazing and in the house there are about 26 so he was never alone so actually to be able to escape up a

staircase into your own private space must have been Heaven can't imagine that the frustration of never being alone I would just want to be solo and Ferdinand found a way of doing it indeed your life has been tied up with this place what does it mean to you now what do you feel about the place when I was young I didn't like it very much I found it very formal and constrictive I was always worrying about knocking something off but I think over the years I've fallen in love with it and it's partly because it's

one man's Obsession and it's partly because every single thing here is excellent you know there is not one thing which isn't perfect and you just think gosh human spirit is so extraordinary to create such beauty won Manor in buckinghamshire was home to the most fabulous parties of the 19th century getting an invite from Ferdinand D Rothchild was like winning Willie Wonka's golden ticket but behind its glamorous facade its magical creator has proven to be a more complicated and at times introverted character but despite the many layers of his personal ity Ferdinand remained committed to captivating

and Charming his many guests and his efforts even extended into the [Applause] garden designed to complement the manner the garden was intended to be a pleasure ground elegant teas were held on the manicured lawn guests could visit an Avy filled with exotic birds or admire sculpture es which drew them further into the garden but if Ferdinand built the garden it was his younger sister an eventual Heir Alice who saw it Blossom nowhere more so than on the grand par a magnificent display of garden tears filled with boldly colored Victorian bedding to find out more about

the indomitable Alice I'm taking a stroll in the part with the trusts Pippa Shirley Pippa tell me about Alice Rothchild she was obviously very involved in the garden she was hugely involved in the garden and she was absolutely passionate about ha culture in fact I think in lots of ways it was the garden that really kind of know set her a light rather than the kind of the the house and the collection what's wonderful for me is coming here for a fabulous example of what proper Victorian bedding was like it wasn't subtle it was so

in yourf face and vibrant and this is it what was she like to work for with these 160 gardeners that she had she was a dragon I think is the long and short of it know she was an absolute martinet I mean her standards were legendary she used to walk around always with a weeding tool in her hand so that she could extract that kind of offending weed where wherever she found it but all of that I think she was deeply respected because she just knew so much even the queen was impressed by Alice and

her standards in fact she referred to Alice as the all powerful which I think oh does that mean she was a bit intimidated I think so I think so and there was certainly an occasion when know she was told not to go on the grass so know Alice told the queen not to go on the ground she pulled no punches woman than I'd be I think for Alice because she spent so much time in the garden um that there are a few interesting features one might say for example it's a tree it's a tree but

down at the bottom there yeah um that's a telephone point no yes I haven't got I've got got mobiles now precisely so what do you do if you're a very busy Gardener and you want to keep in touch with your family but you know you want to be in the garden and you're a rth child what do you do you have a telephone Point pushing the tree to it I've heard of ringer ringer roses but I've never rung a tree Alice was ferdinand's younger sister what was their relationship like I think it was really close

I mean she came to be His companion really after the of evina she clearly also safeguarded his legacy because it's in no small measure due to her also as well as Ferdinand that we have the wers than we know today I think that's absolutely right in lots of ways she was the The house's first curator because she cared for the collection she introduced the housekeeping rules things like protecting the collection against light first and foremost she introduced the cleaning methods things like only cleaning the porcelain in silence so you couldn't be distracted so things of

that sort I'm building up an imp impression of a woman that you would not argue with but then Queen Victoria knew that didn't she future generations of the family have continued Alice's work preserving the manner and its collections but the present Lord Rothschild has commissioned a stunning new space age home with an eye on the future Clive AET has ventured further into the estate to discover the breathtaking Flint house as you approach the Flint house you realize what an incredibly stark contrast it makes with woodston Manor it's on the same estate but it could be

on a different planet I'm meeting the architect Charlotte SK catling hello Charlotte lovely to meet you to find out how she worked with the landscape to make this contemporary design a reality when you first came here Charlotte what was it like it's at the lowest point of the whole estate and and so all the water drains naturally to this point and very very beautiful very quiet very calm but it felt like a slightly enchanted place very very different to the rest of these days and here we have Flint yes yes it's so beautiful isn't it

I mean it is sort of Jewel like and and it's amazing each one oh I think it's rather sharp it's very each one different now one of the the Flint worker said you must never get drunk close to this building historically Flint was fashioned into tools or weapons but where it was abundant it could be used to construct whole buildings it's incredibly durable and resists weathering better than almost any other Stone I sense it's a building which is changing here when the trees have grown up it's going to be hidden away exactly at a secret

place yes absolutely as the site was when we first found it you know covered in lyen and Moss and I hope that landscape is sort of reclaim it Charlotte might have been the architect but the driving force behind the project was the current Lord roosild Jacob who now in his 80s commissioned this extraordinary house how did you come to decide to build it it's quite a long story I had been chairman of the prin priz for architecture so I developed some knowledge of architecture and thought it would be interesting in England particular yes to try

and do some interesting buildings and what do you think Baron Ferdinand would have made with the Flint H he he had an imagination and um he was prepared to do eccentric things I think he would have loved it let's go and have a look inside pleas yeah as well as building striking homes Lord rth child shares another passion with Ferdinand collecting so this house is full of things that you've collected yes I'm afraid that um by jeans it's almost possible for me not to collect cuz on the rth side my father collected quite a lot

and then in the 19th century they collected intensively and I collected from the age of nine so it really is a very large part of my life well you've got this wonderful house how's it going to be used that was the problem we hoped that the director of wson might live here but she prefers to go to our own home then I thought well maybe my children would like to live here none of them wanted to I rang out the G Museum in Los Angeles and said look um why did we do a joint scholarship

scheme Flint housee is now a home and place of study for a scholarship program in the fields of conservation and history of art we hope that one would be inspired to write a great article right nature I love and it is very beautiful isn't it by build building this astonishing house Lord rosch child is following in the footsteps of his ancestor Baron Ferdinand who I'm sure would have [Music] approved ferdinand's beloved wden was eventually Beed to the National Trust in the 1950s by Alice's nephew James der rooth's child he and Alice had both continued to

entertain at wodson and one treasured thank you letter from the family's vault is particularly precious and never on display we've got a letter here from Churchill so this is in 1925 this is James Ross so this is James so James his great friend and here he's thanking him so it's Churchill writing from Chartwell saying my dear Jimmy how very kind of you to send me a token of your friendship in such an agreeable form I shall smoke them with the greatest pleasure we know what they were then don't we and see many Visions in their

wreaths of smoke May the new year bring you health it is the only thing you lack let 1926 fill the Gap such is the wish of your sincere friend Winston s Churchill that's a very nice thing it's a very nice letter and they were genuinely close friends um and of course at this point in 1925 he's a big cheese politically he's a big cheese but he still remembers his thank you letters note to self when I've gone away at the end send you the little thank you note absolutely and within the week furthermore the very

next day actually let's push it a [Music] bit it took Ferdinand many years to realize won Manor and he wanted to ensure it lasted with that in mind I'm been given rare access to one of the mana's greatest but rarely displayed artifacts um this is an impressive red book what's in it well it is uh the Red Book of wer Manor and it's a a photographic album which Ferdinand put together in 1897 so this is the the history of the house it's the most wonderful record for us because it records the house at a moment

in time at the end of the 19th century there's the the gardens out there yes exactly um and then it moves inside so there for example is fured in the room that you were in in his favorite chair there in his favorite chair exactly oh that's exciting to see so I stood here I always find that a wonderful moment where you think I've just leapt back 100 years yes yes one of the things which I find really interesting about this volume is that it was put together in in 1897 and of course A year later

very unexpectedly he died so you know the red book has this very kind of iconic status probably more so than he ever intended this is in effect his last will and testament this is what he bequeathed to his heirs and subsequently indirectly the nation exactly and the essay at the beginning in it he talks about you know the efforts he went to to create won and what he thought might happen to it at the end it's an astonishing comment a future generation May reap the chief benefit of a work which to me has been a

labor of love though I fear that wsom will share the fate of most properties whose owners have no descendants and fall into Decay May the day be yet distant when weeds will spread over the gardens The Terraces crumble into dust the pictures and cab minutes cross the channel or the Atlantic and The Melancholy Cry Of The Night jar sound from the deserted towers and thanks to the National Trust to all of us who support it that's never happened I mean he couldn't have been more wrong could he no 400,000 plus visitors a year FY don't

worry it's fine with ferdinand's red book to hand the Rothschild family and the National Trust continue to preserve ferdinand's great collection but missing from the morning room where guests would have kept up with their correspondents is an extravagant black lacquer desk in need of a little attention presenter Oz Clark is on its restoration Trail in Kent where it's under the care of esteemed conservator Yanik Shau ah I didn't see you are you Yan I'm working I'm Yanik good morning nice to meet you nice to meet you welcome Yanik is a specialist conservator in antique furniture

and has worked on some of the finest pieces ever made when you deal with a cabinet that is so historically important we don't want to make it look new the point is not to turn it into a new object if you want to buy a new cabinet you make a new one we are preserving history we are preserving the object for the Next Generation the desk was already over a 100 years old when Baron Ferdinand bought it in 1890 for a rumored £40,000 that's £5 million in today's money although it might not look it right

at this minute we haven't broken it don't worry it's only dismantled you've taken all of the drawers and all of the door and the gild bronze you remove them for conservation obviously what is that there that the clock face which at the moment we're storing here because it's a very fragile glass but that's going right at the top yeah but what's interesting is when you sitting at your desk writing your letter then you want to check the time but you can't because you bend your neck and you still can't see the clock at the top

so they have another clock just here there is a clock face right at the front of you when you're writing and the movement there is not one movement for this clock but it's communicating with a clock movement at the top so it makes sure that it keeps exactly the same time top and bottom it's quite a inspiring actually to just see the guts of it and it's been built obviously for projecting status and it's as though it's the emperor without any of his clothes on fascinating a lot of the desk bronze and wood trimmings have

been removed to give them a bit of love and attention including some Japanese lacer doors which Janik is currently working on you want to start but in order to get to all of the lacquer the bronze will have to come off R if you just go down you hold it there so always hold your scriver with two hands oh I see yes just in case you justop that screw is very precious yeah so we put the screw in the right place where it came from on the map you just piiss there and it goes here

I see so in 10 months time we can put the screw back in the right place so the bronze is coming off but what's interesting is to see the condition of the lacquer but also as you can see we've got a lot of white residues in the crack alure and that is from previous Clinic crack aler but what does that mean that's the shrinking of the lacquer but because the lacker shrinks too much eventually it's going to start cracking everywhere so that's a natural effect of 200 years to see what Yanik is aiming for he

has another door he's just finished the lacquer as you can see has been drama ically improved just by removing the white residue was that like that it was like that that's fantastic but still seeing a crack aure and still seeing that it is an old 250 years old I think that works very well and um it's only at the beginning of the project and we'll see in 10 months time hopefully we'll get it all looking glamorous again there's an awful lot of work still to do to conserve this stunning piece of furniture but on its

return it will once again stand proud in won's morning room you come to won for its elegant house for its unrivaled collection and its beautiful gardens you come for the dazzling allur the glamour attached to walking the same halls and Pathways as the great and the good from the 19th century but when you get to know it you discover a man who not only had the vision to build it but who hosted his famous parties so that others could share [Music] it it's clear that Baron Ferdinand was a complex man who never got over the

profound sadness of losing his wife ever Ina at such an early age but he devoted the remainder of his life to giving joy to others who visited wodon and that Joy continues to this [Music] day [Music]