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Glamour or guilt? The perils of marketing the British country house

Plus: a comedian looks back to his startling childhood with his con-man father

Roy Strong, then director of the V&A, posing amid the exhibits of his latest show The Destruction of the Country House in 1974. Photo: Evening Standard / Hulton Archive / Getty Images
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