Reflection 20Melanie, Hortense and I had been taken by Giles to Syon House, which belonged to the Duke of Northumberland, to be photographed.
Vogue had the idea of having models posed against realistic backgrounds in famous houses.
Syon House was fantastic! I had never realised that a house could be so beautiful and so elegant.
I wish I could have seen it in the old days when it had dozens of flunkeys in their silver-buttoned livery and the Duke had given grand parties attended by Royalty.
The house had been shut up for most of the War and it had a slightly unlived in look that houses take on when the family who own it are not in residence. But it was still breathtaking to look at and I really enjoyed posing in the pillared hall with its gilded statues, in the Long Gallery and the beau
