![]() ![]() Here she comes, through this door! I can see part of her face. ![]() “Now you can hear children’s voices, laughter and running feet. ![]() “Each time we enter a room, she has just left it … “Even as I talk to you, I can feel her so near to us”, she says. “Her husband owned seven estates, including Chatsworth, Burlington House and Devonshire House. “Chiswick was just a country cottage to her”, she says. Sticking her hands into her pockets, she paces the ground slowly, and talks me in. She is a historian with a sense of theatre. Standing under the gilded octagonal dome of Chiswick House with Amanda Foreman, a 29-year-old blonde in a biker jacket and jeans, I watch her trying, for my sake, to summon the ghost of someone who once lived here. She lived 200 years ago, yet Georgiana`s life uncannily paralleled that of her famous Twentieth-Century descendant, Diana. She was beautiful, but plagued by bulimia. She was a Spencer, adored by all but her husband. ![]()
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