23-05-2025
Countess of Yarmouth: Our disinheritance is a tragedy
Every morning this week, the Earl of Yarmouth, William Seymour, has risen from his bed in the early hours, pulled on his clothes and gone to work on his family farm.
To his wife, the work ethic that drives the routine picking elder blossoms for their liqueur business stands in stark contrast to assumptions that have come to be made about her husband.
Because in addition to being a businessman, the earl is the scion of one of Britain's grandest aristocratic families, whose £85 million ancestral estate centres on the 345-year-old Ragley Hall.
'There's this talk of entitlement and that William is a lazy, entitled toff,' the Countess of Yarmouth, Kelsey Seymour, said.
'Well, I can tell you he's getting up at four o'clock in
