Norfolk for three months. After a year that included three operations and a break-up, the very idea of solitude away from London felt soothing.I already knew about Norfolk’s reputation for eccentricity.
In 2013, when it was announced that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were moving to a Georgian pile just outside Sandringham called Anmer Hall, I spent a week touring the county for a Tatler piece.
Back then, I visited various big houses and quizzed their inhabitants (the so-called ‘turnip toffs’), discovered where Kate went antiques shopping (scoop!) and was genuinely asked by someone I interviewed, ‘Are you going to mention the inbreeding?’Six years on, would I discover that Norfolk had joined the rest of the country in the 21st century,.
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