An aristocrat whose family owns a stately home which featured on Netflix smash hit Bridgerton has been charged with attempting to rape a woman. More recently Castle Howard, which has been home to ten generations of the Howard family for more than 300 years, featured as a setting in the Netflix lockdown hit, Bridgerton. Castle Howard and the wider 10,000 acre, 18th-century estate is owned by Castle Howard Estates Ltd, of which Simon Howard and his elder brother Nicholas were each 50 per cent shareholders. The Howard family are descended from Lord William Howard, the youngest son of Thomas Howard, the 4th Duke of Norfolk. The estate was the fictional Brideshead, both in Granada Television's 1981 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and a two-hour 2008 remake for cinema.

Source: Daily Mail September 01, 2021 15:56 UTC