这本书是由现任庄园的女士撰写的，书中全面介绍了世界**的历史乡村住宅，并展示了过去和现在的款待艺术。以唐顿庄园为背景的高克莱城堡，是我们如何想象完美的英国乡村别墅的缩影。长期以来，海克里欢迎皇室、政治家和来自商界、学术界和艺术界的名人、为拍摄派对、优雅的宴会和盛大的庆典而举行的艺术。

菲奥娜.卡那封夫人，现任女主人，邀请了她的读者进入海克里，她描述了如何以一种庄严的英国乡村风格的风格来款待：用餐礼仪，混合餐，正确的座位安排，得体的着装，摆放餐桌。她深入研究家庭档案，在过去的七十年里，举行了四个真实的历史周末派对。在此期间，海克里还主持了一个引人注目的人物角色--包括本杰明.迪斯雷利和威尔士亲王——探索社会和款待是如何10年10年的变化。书中高克利房间的华丽全彩色摄影并配以迷人的档案图片，这本书探讨了变化的菜单，时尚的鸡尾酒，包括实用的，适合于当下的食谱。

Written by the current lady of the manor, this book gives complete access to the world-renowned historic country house and showcases the art of entertaining, past and present. Highclere Castle, famed as the setting for Downton Abbey, is the epitome of how we imagine the perfect English country house. Long the Carnarvon fami-ly's ancestral country seat, Highclere has welcomed royalty, statesmen, and notables from the worlds of business, academia, and the arts for shooting parties, elegant fetes, and celebrations in the grand style.

Lady Fiona Carnarvon, the current chatelaine, invites readers inside Highclere, past and present, as she describes how to entertain in the style of a stately English country house: the etiquette of the invi-tation, multi-course meals, correct seating arrange-ments, proper attire, setting the table. She delves into family archives to highlight four real-life historic weekend parties over a seventy-year period during which Highclere hosted an ever-changing cast of notable figures--including Benjamin Disraeli and the Prince of Wales--exploring how society and enter-taining changed decade by decade. Complete with gorgeous full-color photography of Highclere's rooms and punctuated by charming archival images, the book explores changing menus, fashionable cocktails of the day, and includes, where practical, adaptations for recipes which can be used for entertaining in the present day.