A Day at Longleat

One of the families that I am focusing on for my dissertation, the Thynnes (one of whom, incidentally, illicitly married a woman named Maria Audley (the Thynne and Audley families were engaged in a long term feud) and this event and subsequent fall out may have been one of the inspirations for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet) have a lovely estate called Longleat and I went out for the day to visit it. The weather was a bit rainy but it was an amazing day (the house also had a rather surprisingly large collection of Nazi memorabilia which was a bit odd) – here are a few photos. The trip also gave me a chance to show off my cozy new scarf from H&M; I’ve decided I’m all about scarves this fall – scarves and animal prints and bows and sheer fabrics. Oh, and I got myself a ridiculous piggy bank. I'm a Save-a-saurus!