Allegra Stratton: Britain Gets Shaken and Stirred
I recently visited the English country house set of my seven-year-old daughter's favorite TV show – the glorious Hartland Abbey in Devon where they film Malory Towers. After she'd gone from room to room gasping as various critical scenes came back to her, all she wanted to know was: where were the dormitories? 'Canada' replied Lady Angela Stucley, the abbey's owner.
The crew worked all summer in heavenly Devon, then decamped across the Atlantic to film the night-time shenanigans in fake movie-set dorms with ersatz English dappled light pouring through unreal windows. We chose to ignore this.
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