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Selling Britishness to Americans: A Real Duke at Guild Hall

Entre nous, times seem a bit tight at Chatsworth House in England, the Duke of Devonshire’s baroque jewel in the Derbyshire countryside, about 160 miles north of London. Peregrine (Stoker) Cavendish, the 12th duke in the Devonshire dynasty, which began in 1640, was onstage recently to tell a packed John Drew Theater all about noble poverty and his leaky ancestral home.