ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「Meghan Markle is not the only duchess in the podcast game. Emma Manners, the Duchess of Rutland, started a podcast in 2020 called “Duchess,” in which she interviews other duchesses who run stately homes. Her home, Belvoir Castle, is perched on a wooded hilltop in the English countryside with more than 356 rooms and soaring neo-Gothic towers and turrets. It was a stand-in for Windsor Castle in “The Crown” and has been featured in movies including “The Da Vinci Code” and “The Young Victoria.” Manners moved there in 2001 when her husband became the 11th Duke of Rutland. But while he may have inherited a fairy-tale castle, the couple was handed almost $15.5 million of inheritance taxes and, in her words, “battalions of rats and staff who clearly preferred the former incumbents to us.” In the years since, the duchess has streamlined the operations of the estate, sought donors and undertaken a costly restoration. The podcast was the brainchild of the duchess’s oldest daughter, Lady Violet Manners. Lady Violet found inspiration from years of listening to after-dinner conversation between duchesses as they sat by the Belvoir fire, swapping recommendations for curtain makers and stonemasons or tips on what to do when a flood happens or a ceiling caves in. What struck the duchess when recording the podcasts was that many of the women, like her, were custodians of personal and collective monuments to important national history. Now 59, she is emerging as one of the more amiable public faces of Britain’s aristocracy at a time when many prefer to remain below the radar. Tap the link in our bio to read more about @duchessrutland and what it takes to maintain a castle. Photos by @alice.zoo」7月17日 3時14分