From the Archives: A Visit to Madonna’s English Country Estate
Cecil Beaton loved the place with “blind devotion.” When Beaton's fifteen-year lease expired and he was evicted to make way for the landlord's son, he wrote an elegiac book to assuage his great loss, a postwar requiem for the giddy, carefree thirties, the years of dressing-up, of masquerade and artifice....















