Champagne Chateau de Boursault with cellars

Like so many of these centuries old mansions, the modern operating costs must be absolutely prohibitive...

@@peterlbaldwin511 They need a stream of income to keep them up, like those vinyards

@@lestermagnuson939 What you say is true of course, but even vinyards are expensive to run, especially if one needs to earn a viable income. I remember reading somewhere, a while back, that The Countess of Caernavon, chatelaine of Highclere Castle admitted that the sizeable location fees paid by the "Downton Abbey" production team, had paid for a desperately needed new roof on the stately pile. No doubt the stream of "day-trippers" devotees of the excellent series, are also a most welcome source of income. Sadly such opportunities are rare..

@@peterlbaldwin511 I think if I’m not mistaken at Highclere it’s about a million bounds a year for the upkeep of the roof that’s with stormed coming in as well I remember lady Caravan saying that people think you have a butler and all you do is sit around and drink tea all day and that’s not the case at all she said there’s a list about as big as the building is and you have to prioritize what goes to the top so it’s revolving all the time I know the one Reynolds’s was taken out of the dinning room of James the first and it was cleaned that was the first in 4 years I think she said and had to have some guilt on the Fran the red silk drapes were just done about a year ago and that was the first in over 6 years lol it’s crazy what it takes I know in 2012 Chatsworth had a complete restoration to the building and furnishing it was about 14million ponds there’s a difference the the cavendish family have enough money to maintain the estate which is the size of the state of Washington DC in America they run 3 county’s it’s amazing

Not for sale (at present) I am afraid!

@@GlassOfBubbly Can i know the back sound in this video, please?

@@RONALDORHUSSO It is a few years since we edited and uploaded the video, it would have been a copyright free for commercial usage track, though I can not find the source from where we got it from I'm afraid. Chris.

@@GlassOfBubbly Thanks for answering. My friend would like to know the whole song. We are Brazilians and we don't understand the lyrics of the song well.