Shugborough: Home of a Royal Cousin

May 26, 2015, 10:08 AM

(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, May 2015)

It's a decade this year since the Staffordshire photographer and Earl, Patrick Lichfield died.

He was 66 when he suffered a stroke in 2005.

But now his private apartments at his family's ancestral home of Shugborough are open to the public to view.

The estate -- which is spread over nine hundred acres and dates back to the 16th Century -- is owned by the National Trust and run by Staffordshire County Council.

Our Stafford reporter EMMA THOMAS has been to visit...