Secrets of iconic British estates
2014
DVD
Take a spectacular tour of four of Britain's most beautiful stately homes: Highclere Castle, Hampton Court Palace, Althorp, and Chatsworth. And in Secrets of the Manor House, discover the realities of 'upstairs-downstairs' life and what it was like behind the 'green baize door.' Be transported back in time to the sumptuous world of Britain's greatest treasure houses.
Item Details
Description:
- 5 videodiscs (approximately 5 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 volume (38 pages : color illustrations ; 14 x 22 cm)
- polychrome
- digital optical
- video file DVD video
Target Audience Note: MPAA: TV-PG.
Other Title:
- Secrets of the Manor House.
- Secrets of Highclere Castle.
- Secrets of Henry VIII's Palace.
- Secrets of Althorp : the Spencers.
- Secrets of Chatsworth.
Notes:
- Narrated by Samuel West.
- Set ISBN: 9781627890427 1627890424
- DVD ; region 1 ; widescreen ; stereo.
- English subtitles.
Contents:
- Disc 1. Secrets of the Manor House
- Disc 2. Secrets of Highclere Castle
- Disc 3. Secrets of Henry VIII's Palace (Hampton Court Palace)
- Disc 4. Secrets of Althorp : the Spencers
- Disc 5. Secrets of Chatsworth.
Publisher or Distributor Number: SIBE600
Control Number: 1045635
UPC: 841887021494
Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2014]Subjects:
- Althorp (England)
- Architecture, Baroque.
- Architecture, Domestic -- England.
- Architecture, Tudor.
- Aristocracy (Social class) -- History.
- Carnarvon, Fiona, Countess of.
- Carnarvon, Henry Herbert, Earl of, 1898-1987.
- Castles -- England -- Hampshire.
- Cavendish family -- History.
- Chatsworth (England)
- Country homes -- England -- Northamptonshire -- History.
- Country homes -- England.
- Country life -- England -- History -- 20th century.
- Duke family -- History.
- England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
- England -- Social life and customs.
- Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Dwellings.
- Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England)
- Highclere Castle.
- Palaces -- England -- History.
- Palaces -- England -- London.
- Spencer family -- Homes and haunts.
- Spencer, Charles Spencer, Earl, 1964- -- Homes and haunts.
Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Nonfiction television programs.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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