Mount Stuart

Imagine being rather fabulous and sitting around in your kilt and Doc Martens, surrounded by family portraits painted by Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough. Sounds like a dream? Well not so for the Marquess (and Marchioness) of Bute. Just a normal day rattling around in the Neo-Gothic ancestral country estate — if your 'normal' includes being a Formula 1 racing driver (under the pseudonym Johnny Dumfries) and having a frieze in your bedroom depicting the life of St. Margaret, the 11th-century Scottish queen...

P.S. Chosen by Stella McCartney as a backdrop for her nuptials.

Well, hello!

What shall I do today?

3-story marble hall with 80-foot ceiling

Billiards, anyone?

The private library

Drawing room

The recently restored Blue Bedroom
(initiated by the Marchioness - model turned fashion designer)

Photographs by Alexia S. via here