Do Britain’s Historic Country Houses Have To Be Disneyfied To Survive?

“It’s a sort of retro-kitsch fantasia. If I understand him correctly, we have got to have ripped bodices at Hardwick Hall, discarded cod pieces, and stains on the four-poster like Tracey Emin’s bed. It’s a sort of vulgarity that would bring Walt Disney into discredit. It’s utterly infantile.”