

Looking out for Father Christmas
The story goes that, if you behave well and write a kind, clear letter, Father Christmas will listen to your wishes and arrive at each and every home on Christmas Eve, sailing through the night skies on a sledge piled high with presents and pulled by reindeer. As well as large sacks of goodies, the other meaning of swag is of course garlands and ribbons in abundance and hopefully Father Christmas will find those too. We certainly have them absolutely everywhere at Highclere.
Being practical, children usually know what they want and are motivated when it is to their advantage. Pencil lines are carefully drawn across the paper to help keep the words level before the letter is sent up the chimney or, more often today, off to Lapland courtesy of the Post Office. It is a lovely thought that even in these commercial times, the world’s postal services still employ people to deal with children’s Christmas letters.
I suspect today that Father Christmas also sometimes receives emails or WhatsApp messages although I have no idea how they might be addressed. They certainly have the advantage that they can be continually updated with new desires and changes of plans thus adding to the flurries of confusion of this time of year, whereas writing a letter takes time and thought and, once posted, that is it.
When my son was little, like other parents with small children, I knew it was always worthwhile helping with the process of Santa’s letter because some knowledge of the list was essential: children tend to remember and there needs to be some parity between the list and the reality of the Christmas stocking.

A window in Highclere Church
Of course, the whole idea of presents at Christmas stems from the visit of the shepherds and the three kings to the baby Jesus. It was the ultimate refugee tale: homeless parents, dreadful rulers and a legal requirement for “registration” and, in the midst of all these challenges, was the birth of their baby. The witnesses were humble shepherds, whilst the gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh were fit for a king – wealth, worship and the final gift, myrrh completing the cycle of life as it was used to anoint the body in death.
As we get older, gifts become more thoughtful than simple requests to Father Christmas. They may be much needed or practical items such as food, clothes or equipment, they may offer something to admire or learn from or eschew the physical altogether in favour of an “experience”. True gifting involves thought on the part of the person finding the gift as well as the consequential happiness and smiles on the part of the recipient and thus can be just as pleasurable for both parties. Then we have today’s focus on sustainability as well so all in all Father Christmas has quite a few challenges.

Dear Lady Carnarvon
Thank you for the gift of your writing throughout the year and a reminder of the gift of giving.
Very best Christmas wishes.
Thank you – Happy Christmas
A Very Happy Christmas to you all at Highclere castle, may it be peaceful and that 2022 will bring all that you wish for Nadolig Llawen
Merry Christmas
A Very Happy Christmas to you all at Highclere castle, may it be peaceful and that 2022 will bring all that you wish for Nadolig Llawen
Lady Carnarvon, a heartwarming story today. I would personally like to thank you for all your love and devotion to Highclere Castle. Without you we would not have that feeling of being part of Highclere. I send you my greatest admiration and gratitude. Merry Christmas to you and all. Cheryl
Merry Christmas Cheryl
Hi!
Reading this, particularly the part about being involved in your child’s letter writing, brought to mind a funny memory. When our daughter was young she handed my husband and I her sealed and stamped, ready for the post office, letter to Santa! We were clueless as to the contents so did a sneaky letter opening. I was thrilled to discover she asked Santa for a family ring for her mother!
Happy Christmas!
Dear Lady Carnarvon
Thank you for rhe beautiful book. I ordered two and sent one to South Africa, to my closest friend, who was delighted to receive it.
Have a blessed Christmas.
Warm wishes
Jane Sheridan
Dear lady Carnarvon,
My year would be complete without your articles through out the year!
Merry Xmas to ALL of you , Staff, FAMILY, and all the well wishers that write to you through out the year.
Merry Xmas,
John Roberts
Tonawanda, N.Y.
U.S.A.
Merry Christmas John to you and your family
Merry and blessed Christmas to you and your family and staff.I love visiting with you and reading your articles.Thank you for making my Christmas a little brighter.
Lady Carnarvon, very heartwarming and infinitely true. We’ve had our own outpouring of Christmas/Neighbourly charity and gift giving here as there were tornadoes last Wednesday that destroyed homes, businesses, and others holiday plans. The volunteerism of community and goodwill donations of food, warm shelter, clothing, household goods and the like will assist many displaced or disrupted by our strange winter weather phenomenon. God Bless and Happy Christmas to you and yours. Ione
Dear Lady Carnarvon
I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year.
Such a lovely story today
Dear Lady Carnarvon,
I would like to wish you a very happy Xmas.
NAT
Lady Carnarvon lovely of bàgs of swag and happy christmàs to you and lord Carnarvon and lovely to visit highcelere castle
Happy Christmas to you and Lord Carnarvon as well,
Your weekly blog is such a joyful, educational and beautiful gift to all of us lucky subscribers. Thank you for the time, research, photography and writing you put into it each week as we all are so appreciative. Prayers going out that COVID and it’s variants fade away and disappear forever in 2022 and beyond so life at Highclere and everywhere can safely move forward.
God bless us, every one.
Dear Lady Carnarvon,
Thank you for your delightful thoughts and comments over the last year. I always enjoy your writing and look forward to the next instalment. A very happy Christmas to you and your family.
How kind thank you – Merry Christmas
Thank you for your timeless message. Merry Christmas to All.
Kindly, Holly
Lady carnarvon l lovely pictures of the bags of swag happy Christmas to you and lord Carnarvon and lovely to visit highcelere castle
A most Happy Christmas to you and all at Highclere Castle. Thank you for all the lovely tales and historic memories that you so generously give us all year long. You bring us together as a family every Monday and your messages keep us close even though we are far away.
Happy Christmas Catherine
Dear Lady Carnarvon,
Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!
A Very Happy Christmas to you all at Highclere. Wish I was there.
Maybe next year you will visit us?
Dear Lady Carnarvon,
Beautiful church! I hope Father Christmas brings you much happiness and joy to you and your family, so Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, to everyone.
Jane
Thank you Jane – Merry Christmas
Lady Carnarvon, as this year comes to a close, I cannot thankyou enough for the wonderful and inspirational blogs you have written to your supporters. In my darkest moments, you have shed light, joy and hope throughout this continuing pandemic. Looking forward to a healthy, joyful and peaceful soul in 2022. But most importantly continuing to be part of Highclere Castle. Thankyou, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Lady Carnarvon,
Your writings throughout the year have brought me much joy, none moreso than your Christmas message.
My wife and I hope (Covid and Highclere’s scheduling permitting) to visit your home this coming June.
In the meantime, we send our very best wishes from Florida for a very Happy Christmas and a healthy New Year.
See you in June 2022
I so much appreciate your writing and the precious time you have taken to write. I love the pictures, and it joyfully does take us away to these distant places. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful Blessed year ahead! Larry&Yvonne
Dear Lady Carnarvon,
Another beautifully written story. I do so look forward to your weekly news of what’s happening at the castle or the events happening around the world. Sending peace love and a Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones this season!
Thank you Deborah and Merry Christmas to you and your family
Oh how I’d love to visit your home at Christmas Lady Carnarvon! I do not remember seeing a church when I visited Highclere Castle in May 2019. Where is the Highclere Church located?
May your Christmas be bright and merry!
Ina Sue
The Christmas season doesn’t start until tomorrow at our house, as I gave birth to our oldest son many years ago on December 20th. We made it a rule that his birthday would be his day, so no Christmas decorations, baking or shopping were done until the 21st. This put some real pressure on Santa, but Santa still follows the rule to this day, even 46 years later.
Our son was always thankful for his special birthday. When he was little he thought all the store decorations were for him. Now that he is a grown man, he still appreciates that we make his birthday as special as his older sister’s and younger brother’s summer and autumn birthdays.
No matter where he lives he comes home and helps with all the holiday decorations and is the first one ready for the holiday Church service. We are all thankful at this time of year to celebrate the birth of Christ and our son, Robert Andrew.
Lovely story – Happy Christmas
What a wonderful tradition you begs. For your son. “Christmas” babies so often loose out on a special day that is theirs.Congratulations on thinking ahead and a very Merry Christmas to you and happy birthday to him.
Dear Lady Carnavon,
Thank you for another year of wonderful blogs.
Wishing you, your family and all at Highclere a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Best wishes
Lorraine xxxx
Very kind and Happy Christmas to you too!
The Happiest of Christmas’s and a Healthy and Grand New Year!
Dear Lady Carnarvon,
Absolutely wonderful!! I love your writing of the many layers of Christmas…. Peace, remembrance and joy.
As I write, the deer are passing through our backyard and the woodpeckers, mostly pileated, are hammering on the trees and it sounds like a construction site! Cold and clear, winter arrives tomorrow and it feels like it today!
I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas! Peace and Good Health in 2022! Thank you for the joy and insight you bring to us every Monday, and in your Instagram posts as well. God bless!
Best regards,
Charlotte Merriam Cole
It sounds amazing! Happy Christmas!
Thank you for your beautiful message. May you have a very Merry Christmas.
And to you too!
A very Merry Christmas and blessed New Year to you and your family!
Mindy
Thank you so much
Hello Lady Carnarvon
For your consideration at a convenient juncture ……………………………….
Your seasonal greetings are most heartily reciprocated.
Hanging up my baubles, made me think that you have many that have been at Highclere for years and enjoyed by many generations.
Must watch Christmas at Highclere on You Tube again and Carols from the Palaces.
Just reviewed the TV programs and have 2 options
Hibernate
or watch the entire Downton Abbey series, just to get a glimpse of Lady Mary’s ankles.
Wishing you all a very happy and healthy Christmas and look forward to meeting you in 2022.
I do like your comment on sustainability. Father Christmas was traditionally very good at that, nuts, raisins, oranges, apples, hand knitted items in natural fibers, wooden toys & tins of biscuits. Perhaps that will be my new approach to sustainability: “what would Father Christmas do?”. Thank you for the inspiration & a happy & healthy yule tide to you & every one important to you. Kind regards, Norma.
Happy & Healthy New Year to you
Dear Lady Carnarvon,
Your thoughtful words sustain me all week and I thoroughly enjoy reading your post every Monday. My husband and I so hope to get to Highclere this summer as the last two have prohibited us from traveling to the UK. It is all too complicated with the testing and isolating if a test comes up positive.
I do wish you all a very Merry Christmas and good tidings for the New Year.
Fondly,
Diana Squibb
South Florida
Dear Lady Carnarvon,
Thank you for taking on the mantle of “hope giver” especially during this pandemic. Some may think it’s frivolous to read a blog about life at a castle in England, but that would be so far from the truth. You have helped all of us think on other things that are thoughtful and beautiful…during a time of so much thoughtlessness and dismal news. You have given our minds the ability to pull away from the constant barrage of news, little of it good, and provided food for our souls. Words, once read and pictures, once seen, can be carried with you and your thoughtful writing is the conduit for us to be reminded that we are all in this together; frustrations, heartache, beauty, joy, no matter where or how you live.
Grateful for your dedication to you home, family and all of us, your faithful readers. Wishing you and all of us a Merry Christmas…. and in the words of Tiny Tim… God Bless Us Everyone.
Linda Thompson
San Francisco, CA
Merry Christmas Linda
Thank you for this beautiful reminder of what Christmas is really about, hearts full of the joy of giving so love is spread. These photos gave me great joy!
May you have a love filled Christmas.
Lady Carnarvon,
Merry Christmas to you and yours. Blessings for the New Year.
Colleen from Nova Scotia, CANADA
Lady Carnarvon,
Happy Monday before Christmas to you and your family and staff at beautiful Highclere Castle! And thank you for the picture of the interior of the chapel. It is lovely.
My granddaughter has taught her two children that Christmas is about giving back, so their presents are something wanted, something needed, something wished for, and a surprise. From each item, they give back something they have to a local charity before Christmas for other children whose wishes for such may not come true otherwise.
Thank you for sharing the gift of your stories.
May the Holy Season bring a Happy and Healthy New Year!
Martha G.
That is a lovely tradition for your grand children to give to others at Christmas time.
I wish all at Highclere a very Merry Christmas and a Healthy and Happy New Year,
Stay safe and be happy.
From Kathleen Ontario Canada.
Merry Christmas to everyone at Highclere and a better and peaceful New Year.
I am so pleased that I found you and I much enjoy your interesting and lovely well written articles each Monday morning. Each article seems to bring back happy memories to me as a country girl and this one is no exception. My father was always responsible for decorating our small church at Christmas with evergreens from our garden and it used to look so beautiful as he was such a talented man and I miss him so much at this time. But thank you as it is a joy to remember all those Christmases past, and I can now smell the heavenly scent of all those evergreens as I helped him with arrangements at the end of each pew and around the pulpit and much much more involving big hanging swags requiring such skill at climbing the ladder and arranging them just so ! He was nothing if not a perfectionist.
Pauline.
The smell of evergreens is delightful!
Thank you for keeping us thinking of wonderful Highclere throughout these Covid years. And I hope that this May (unlike the last two Mays!) will find myself and my travel group visiting you. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Barbara I hope to see you in May!
Merry Christmas to everyone at Highclere!
Greetings from Portugal.
A very happy and blessed Christmas –
And a healthy, safe New Year – to all.
Marguerite
Happy Christmas and blessings for the New Year. I look forward to another year of your lovely blogs. Thank you so much.
Thank you Cynthia
Dear Lady Carnarvon
Thankyou for a year of great stories, todays helped me remember the letters up the chimney to Father Christmas. It brings back so many happy memories of family Christmases.
From my family to yours, may you all have a very merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year
Merry Christmas to you and your family Kirsty
Lord and Lady Carnarvon,
Thank you for sharing the lovely pictures of Highclere and informative stories you write.
Hope to visit someday. Merry Christmas to you, family and staff
And blessed New Year too all.
Sincerely, Rosemary
OHHH THANK YOU ! Your thoughts and the photos make my day.
Lady Carnarvon,
I look forward to opening your email on Monday! It is always a bright spot to start my week. Your reflections and stories are so heartwarming. May you and yours have a Merry Christmas and the Best in 2022.
Greetings from Texas, USA!!
Happy Christmas and good luck in 2022!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! My hope is for some kind of normalcy to accure so that I can fulfill my dream to visit your beautiful home!
Kathryn Crowell from North Carolina.
Merry Christmas Kathryn
MERRY CHRISTMAS! And HAPPY HEALTHY NEW YEAR.❤
Love receiving your emails, reading your insights of the history and happenings at Highclere.
Wishing you a very Happy Christmas, hope 2022 is a better year for us all.
In Louisiana our Cajun community builds fantastic structures to make bonfires along the Mississippi R. to show Papa Noel the way on Christmas Eve. It has become such a time-honored attraction, missed last year by Covid, but now bigger than ever. The structures can be a simple log cabin, a giant alligator or a mansion…creativity abounds and it always seems a shame to set them on fire….but Papa Noel must not lose his way.
Whilst much of the world does…..
Dear Lady Carnarvon,
I so enjoy your web page. I’m curious to know what is the reason for the blank shields over the Salon fireplace?
Merry Christmas & may you and your family have a Blessed Happy New Year.
Kristine Lilja-King
Bangor, Maine, USA
Possibly meant to be painted but just decoration
Dear Lady Carnarvon, as always, and excellent text. And so true. Wishing you and your family a very Happy and Healthy and safe Christmas, and wonderful New Year. And hope that Father Christmas brings you all that you hope for. Sincerely. Desiree Creary.
Thank you Desiree – Happy Christmas!
Dear Lady Carnarvon,
Best wishes for blessed holidays and new year in every way for you and all of those whom you love!
I just revisited my Highclere Castle Christmas photos from a 2013 trip. Such wonderful memories of the beautiful holiday decorations, the excellent dinner–in the library?, the lovely spirit-warming carols afterwards–and, of course, your surprise visit arriving just back from an OXFAM trip.
I am looking forward to Viking.TV’s Highclere Castle Christmas Eve special and hoping that you be the one giving us the gift of your voice reading “The Night Before Christmas”.
Thank you for all that you do for the world and Happy Christmas!
Even better my husband!
Dear Lady Carnarvon,
What a beautiful passage to read. Just finished reading Seasons at Highclere and what wonderful traditions and stories at Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
How very kind Nathan, thank you
MY DARLING LADY FIONA,
GOOD EVENING,
RÍO CLARO, 33°CELSIUS ,VERY WARM DAY, SPRING.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH ,FOR SHARING, THIS YEAR ,THIS UNFORGETABLE PLACE FOR ALL THE PERSONS, WHO LOVED, YOUR BEAUTIFUL CASTLE.
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE FAMILYS :PROCHNOW, DEL CAMPOS, VIEIRA DA SILVA,
PEREIRA PINHEIRO ,FROM BRAZIL .HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR FOR YOU AND YOURS.
VILLA ALEMÃ
RIO CLARO – SP
BRAZIL
Good reminder about the letter to Father Christmas. Should be simple this year:
“Help us, Father Christmas, you’re our only hope.”
I may have mixed up my Star Wars with my Christmas legends. Nevertheless, hope is a relevant sentiment this year.
Happy holidays to all at Highclere
Happy Christmas!
Lady Carnarvon,
Thank you for the reminder of the reason for this season and that the birth of baby Jesus is a sign of hope for all who have faith. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Sincerely,
Lisa Stevens
Thank you for sharing memes & tidbits each week this year. Hope you & your family (including the Highclere staff) have a blessed Christmas & a Happy New Year!
Dear Lady Carnarvon:
Thank you for your heart-warming Monday blog.
I enjoyed looking at the colorful photographs of the ornaments and stockings hung on the fireplace. Beautiful photograph of the stained-glass window at the Castle and the Christmas adorned chapel.
So, until next week may you, Lord Carnarvon, and all the support staff at Highclere Castle have a Merry Christmas and may Santa Claus be good to each and every one of you.
Perpetua Crawford
And to you too! Thank you
A very Merry Christmas to all our chatters wherever you are.
May the spirit of Christmas fill everybodys heart at this time of the year and may you all enjoy this blessed and Holy time. I hope there is remembrance for what we have lost throughout 2021, that we can see a better 2021 with peace in the world and love for one another.
To you, Lord Carnarvon and your family I wish a very Happy and Holy Christmas.
Thank you for your wonderful blogs Lady Carnarvon you have lifted all of our spirits in 2021 and we (I am sure) consider you as a valued friend.
Joy Roebig
Australia
You are very kind – happy Christmas!
Dear Lady Carnarvon:
For you and your readership’s information, following is how to e-mail Santa Claus and get a reply:
Please go to santaonline.net/the-mail-room/.
Until next week, keep an eye on the sky Christmas Eve night.
Perpetua Crawford
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Dear Lady Carnarvon
I wish you lots of happy Christmas greetings and also lots of happy days for you,your family and wonderful team of staff and friends in 2022.
My sister Barbara and I shared a wonderfully happy day this year at Highclere for the Magic of the Movies event and will be back for another happy day for the same 2022 event.
Thank you so much for your thoughtful, entertaining and interesting posts.
They make my Mondays!
Happy Christmas from Windermere.
June and Barbara
Thank you – happy Christmas!
Dear Lady Carnarvon,
Thank you so much for your delightful stories from Highclere that you so eloquently write each Monday! I look forward to reading them and reminisce about the lovely day that I spent there in early August, 2019. May your family have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Happy Christmas – and here is to a New Year once more…
THANK YOU Lady Carnarvon for your season’s greetings.
WE WISH YOU ALL
A MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND HOPEFULLY A SAFE AND PROSPEROUS
NEW YEAR IN 2022.
See you next year hopefully
Heather Ranger and Malcolm Gilbert
From Australia
It would be lovely to think we could see you next year!
My husband Robert and I wish you and your family a very happy Christmas and New Year from Scotia, New York.
We have enjoyed your blogs and your books and look forward to visiting Highclere sometime soon. In the meantime we are enjoying and giving as gifts Highclere Castle Gin.
I hope you enjoy the holidays and 2022 is kinder to the tourist traffic. You have a beautiful home.
Oh, one more thing, please tell your chef, I’ve enjoyed yours and his recipes.
A very happy Christmas to you and your family.
Sincerely,
Bob & Jace Lambert-Roszak
Thank you very much !
Thank you so much Lady Carnarvon for all your efforts in keeping your “flock” informed and amused with your blogs and indeed with your virtual presentations, they all keep us firmly pledged to visit Highclere and hopefully meet you and your team one day. Travel from Oz will happen one day but meantime I stay connected virtually. Have a lovely celebration over the Festive Season and may 2022 be rewarding.
Dear Lady Carnarvon,
Wishing you and the entire “Monday Family” a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Peaceful New Year. May 2022 be very special for all of you.
Regards,
Jeffery Sewell
Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy new year.
Hope you continue your wonderful blog. I love reading all the interesting stories you write. Since our visit to Highclere in 2019, I look forward to the day when we can visit again and hopefully get to have tea with you.
Sincerely,
Mimi Ragan
North Myrtle Beach, SC USA
Merry Christmas to you and your family, Lady Carnarvon, and thanks for always sharing your blog with us each week. It’s such a joy to open my email each Monday and read your blog!
Thank you for your wonderful pictures and your always wonderful blog! Mele Kalikimaka, Hou’oli makahiki hou from Hawaii Island.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Blessings to you and yours …The words and photos have meant so much to me throughout the year.Especially appreciated the glimpses of your church…from Boise Idaho,USA.
Dear Lady Carnarvon,
Thank you so much for such an articulate, thought-provoking blog this week. It completely sums up the meaning of Christmas for me too. We all need hope in our lives to face the future.
I wish you and your family a very happy and Holy Christmas.
Kim Daniels
West Midlands.
Dear Lady Carnarvon,
Thank you for your blogs every week, they are alway full of interesting information and history.
And this week a reminder of the reason for the season. We all need to be asking His help to make the world healthy again.
Wishing you and your family and everyone at Highclere and around the world a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Sincerely,
GG Rose
Wishing you all a happy, safe and healthy Christmas and 2022.
Your blog as kept me same during lockdowns, illness and the frustration of not being able to travel far and meet with family.
Thank you for ‘painting with words, ‘ quote from David McCullough , always my pleasure to read the blog each monday morning.
With luck and a fair wind I hope to be back to the old country next year and of course Highclere is on my visit list.
Wishing you and your family and staff the most fun and relaxed season ever.
Lady Carnarvon,
Thank you for this wonderful story. To remind us to always keep the light of hope. Happy Christmas for yourself and your loved ones.
Thank you for all of your writings, observations and photographs throughout the year. They are a joy to read every Monday and always raise our thoughts to a situation or event, enabling us to focus somewhere other than in our own minds. You also bring a giggle along with it too!
Merry Christmas to you and your Family, and a Peaceful New Year – good things to come – for us all.
Beautifully said, Lady Carnarvon! The Merriest of Christmases to you and your family!! Hoping for a thriving New Year for you all at Highclere Castle!!
Stephen Bennett
Merry Christmas!
Lady Carnarvon,
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you and all at Highclere Castle! Thank you for your thoughtful insights!
Sheila Holt Lee
Dear Lady Carnarvon,
I love the idea of sending letters to Santa up the fireplace. I learned about that recently on a chateau renovation program. That would have been so much fun when we were kids. I think my elementary school (kindergarten-6th grade) had a box out where the children could drop their letters off to Santa and the post office would pick them up. Of course not every house in Southern California had fireplaces, but we always did, and I think that would have been much more elegant and faster.
I loved seeing your Xmas ornaments.
Merry Christmas to you all,
Val in So. CA
Merry Christmas to you and your family. Have a safe and healthy New Year.
Thankyou for your often delightful and always thought provoking Monday dispatches.
Merry Christmas to you and yours and all the best for a safe, healthy, happy 2022.
Dear Lady Carnarvon,
thank you so much for your blog which is always interesting and inspiring. I’ve been really enjoying the messages of Dr Charles Stanley (www.intouchuk.org/listen) this year as we prepare for Christmas Day itself. There is probably more to Christmas than we can fully comprehend, even in a lifetime. However, as you mentioned in your blog, the joy of giving and hope are thoughts we can all treasure this Christmas.
Merry Christmas and best wishes to you and all at Highclere.
Kevin
Dear Lady Carnarvon
Wishing you and your Family and the Staff of Highclere a most happy Christmas and peaceful New Year.
Thanking you for the Gift of your Blogs which bring all of us happiness and Joy.
Thank you – all best wishes to you and your family too
Lady Carnarvon,
Thank you so much for the BEAUTIFUL and INTERESTING blogs. I LOVE them all and look forward to seeing and reading each and every one of them.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to your family and all at Highclere,
Lesa
How very kind – Happy Christmas
Dear Lady Carnarvon
Happy Christmas to you and your family.
Fondly Jenny