What Makes a Family Like the Cholmondeleys So Enduring in British Public Life?
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What Makes a Family Like the Cholmondeleys So Enduring in British Public Life?
The Cholmondeley family has been part of the British aristocracy for centuries. Their endurance comes from land, title, and strategic marriage, which together have kept them visible in public life.
The family seat is Houghton Hall in Norfolk. The current Marquess of Cholmondeley, David Rocksavage, and his wife Rose Hanbury have drawn attention in recent years.
The family name is pronounced "Chumley," a fact that surprises most people outside Britain.
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What could be more delicious than touring one of Britain’s most extraordinary wartime intelligence sites with the Marquess of Cholmondeley, the man whose relations once lived there?In the latest issue, David Cholmondeley shows Tatler around Trent Park, now open to the public after 10 years of renovations. Hidden in Cockfosters, this grand country house was a glittering society retreat in the 1920s and 30s, welcoming royalty, artists, and Hollywood stars under the ownership of Cholmondeley’s great-uncle, Sir Philip Sassoon. Then, during the Second World War, it became the setting for one of Britain’s most sophisticated intelligence operations.For decades, almost nobody knew the tale of Trent Park’s espionage, crucial in capturing opposition secrets that would help defeat Nazism, but as the Marquess shared, ‘it’s such a fantastic story.’ Discover the house and its secrets in Tatler’s September issue – on newsstands now. Pictures 1, 3-5 are Trent Park today, photographed by James McDonaldPicture 2 shows David and Rose, the 7th Marquess and Marchioness of Chomondley, at Houghton Hall in Norfolk photographed by Jonathan Becker