Porn in the ballroom and lions in the garden: how aristocrats saved their country houses from the taxman
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telegraph.co.ukNudist Paradise. And so the fee-paying attendees unwittingly became extras in one of Britain’s first X-rated movies. What lengths would you go to keep your family home?
Would you let nosy neighbours poke around the kitchen, and allow wild animals to roam free in the garden? Would you welcome a film crew and a group of nudists into your bedroom to appease the tax man?
These were the very real dilemmas faced by Britain’s aristocracy when post-war policies designed to promote a more equal society threatened to end centuries of opulent country-house life - unless the dukes, duchesses and marquesses in question got very creative indeed.
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