Things To Do in East Midlands

Built in 1508 by Sir John Spencer, Althorp has brought a sometimes unwelcome dose of fame to the surrounding rural area as the girlhood home of Princess Diana. It was glamorously revived by Raine Spencer, Diana's stepmother. At least part of the beauty and historical authenticity of…

American visitors will be especially interested in this small mid-16th-century Tudor manor, the ancestral home of George Washington. As part of a plan to dissolve the monasteries, Henry VIII sold the priory-owned manor in 1539 to Lawrence Washington, who had been mayor of…