Boughton: The House, its People and its Collections

Boughton, the Duke of Buccleuch's Northamptonshire home, was transformed from a Tudor manor into 'the English Versailles' by Ralph, 1st Duke of Montagu, Charles II's envoy to Louis XIV. It houses splendid portraits of Elizabeth I, Charles II's son the Duke of Monmouth, another Buccleuch ancestor, and Shakespeare's muse, the Countess of Southampton.