From Roman villas to Downton Abbey: Britain’s country houses
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Courtiers Spending Huge Sums of Money on Spectacular Projects
By the tudor and jacobean eras, country houses were very much viewed as status imbals. And court portiers spend prodigious sums of money on lavish building projects - sometimes ruining themselves in the process. There was a theory of magnificence, and it was accepted that to spend a huge amount of money to show yourself to be like a prince, that was a thoroughly good thing.
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