Three great Families and their Gardens: Arts Society Guernsey Lecture

Three great Families and their Gardens: A History of the Astors, the Rothschilds and the Sackville Wests
Lecturer: Caroline Rayman

This talk combines the lives of the Astors, the Sackville Wests and the Rothschilds and their family history with the story of the gardens they have all created, despite their very different backgrounds, in the English countryside.

Caroline has lectured for many years to universities and art organisations in America and on cruise ships. She was an official guide at the British Museum and has published articles on samplers. Her lectures range from the role of the royal mistress in history to more scholarly lectures on Frederick the Great of Prussia.  The story of Caroline’s lecture The Mysterious Disappearances of the Ghent Altarpiece is to be told in a new film in 2025, entitled The Bold Thief.