American Viscountess, Montagu, who is married to Luke, heir to the earldom of Sandwich and lives at the 52-room Mapperton House in Dorset, proves that life is no picnic for a modern day chatelaine.Looking every bit the Viscountess in a headscarf and shades, with a thermos of coffee in her bag, Montagu cruises between her friends’ stateleys in a 1950s convertible Chevrolet Corvette, touring their houses and gardens and sharing battle stories. “When I say Luke and I don’t sit down, I mean we don’t sit down,” she says. “It’s a constant battle to break even.”Lucky then that Montagu isn’t the sitting on the sofa type.
She’s a yoga teacher from Illinois, who didn’t know what a Viscount was when she met her husband – whose ancestors invented the.
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