POLESDEN LACEY SURREY

Margaret Greville

‘Most people leave their money to the poor. I intend to leave mine to the rich,’ Edwardian society hostess Margaret Greville would boast publicly. So it must have been a great surprise and disappointment to Queen Elizabeth, the future Queen Mother, when Mrs Greville left Polesden Lacey (above) – the country house where she spent part of her honeymoon in 1923 and thought she might inherit – to the National Trust. ‘It is a difficult place