The Stress of Being Privileged

Alcohol plays a big part in this book. There are lots of alcoholics. In the case of your father and his brother, you think it was because of the mother. But I think there was a whole kind of syndrome there about drink. And with temperance, my great-great grandmother smushed all the bottles of wine in Castle Howard. She was totally temperance and went round closing all the pubs in Yorkshire where she would get their hands on them.