Nicola Cornick, historian and author, discusses the Georgian love story of Lydiard Park’s Frederick St. John and Ashdown House’s Arabella Craven. From the ballrooms of London to piracy on the high seas, Frederick and Arabella’s story encompasses all the adventure, glamour and scandal of the Georgian age.
The English Country House has always had a role to play in the love affairs and marriage contracts of both the aristocrats upstairs and the servants downstairs. In this talk, Nicola Cornick explores a dynastic marriage between the members of two prominent local families that was as much an alliance of power as it was a love match.