Shugborough
Princess Anne would turn up in a battered old Land Rover and say, “I’m here to see Patrick.” … She held the speed record for riding a scooter around the grounds. Our guide at Shugborough Hall has been working there for twenty years, and had many stories of when it was still occupied by the Earls of Lichfield. The fifth earl, Thomas Patrick John Anson, otherwise known as Patrick Lichfield, lived there until his death in 2005, though the house…