There are more than 400 lightbulbs at Harewood House to change on the state floor alone. In the old kitchen, it takes a team 50 hours to polish 250 copper pieces to a presentable shine.

THEY are the Regency ‘greats’ - writer Jane Austen and JMW Turner - and this year is the 250th anniversary of their birth.

The Princess Royal died suddenly at Harewood House at the age of 67 in 1965. The Archbishop of York, Dr Donald Coggan said: ‘The people of Yorkshire regarded her as in some ways especially their ...

In 1790, he was made the first Baron Harewood and joined the English nobility. He was in charge of the family fortune from 1786, when his younger brothers Daniel and Henry both died within two ...

This is Yorkshire, the Texas of England. Some of the houses are in fact palaces, ... and Harewood House, a Palladian masterpiece begun by landowner Edwin Lascelles in 1759.

Harewood House is to close its 50-year-old Bird Garden this year following concerns that the attraction has become outdated. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Yorkshire Evening Post, you ...

Useful/Beautiful exhibition of contemporary craft at Harewood House shows work by ... The rug was made using 100 kilograms of leftover Yorkshire wool sourced from a local textile factory and dyed ...

Mary Berry visits Harewood House in Yorkshire as they prepare the house for Christmas. When it comes to Christmas food and entertaining, Britain's country houses have always put on a show.

Harewood House was home to Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, through four decades. Her love of the county, and the affection its people felt for her in return, led to her becoming known as ‘the ...

I’m standing on the terrace of Harewood, an English country house between Leeds and Harrogate, savouring the view. The landscape is a mix of the felicitous and the judicious, thanks to a certain ...

Actor and writer David Harewood said the unveiling of his portrait in the Harewood House marks a “significant day” for him and his family. The Homeland and Blood Diamond actor, who was raised ...