The connection between Woolf, Queen Camilla and Possingworth Manor was Violet Trefusis, whose mother Alice Keppel was Queen Camilla’s great-grandmother and the long-time mistress of King Edward VII. Case in point, Possingworth Manor, which can boast connections to both Virginia Woolf, author of “Orlando” and many other highly esteemed writings, as well as newly crowned Queen Camilla. The East Sussex manor, about 1.5 hours from central London, was first recorded around 1281, though the current house is thought to have been completed in 1657 by Thomas Offley, whose initials appear along with that date above a doorway to the house. It’s not all surprising that an English manor house dating back four centuries would have some interesting associations with royalty, both aristocratic and literary.
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