The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire was brought up in Oxfordshire with spells in London. In 1950, her husband, Andrew, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, inherited estates in Yorkshire and as well as Chatsworth, the family seat in Derbyshire, and Deborah became chatelaine and housekeeper of one of England's greatest and best-loved houses. Following her husband`s death in 2004, she moved to a village on the Chatsworth estate where she now lives.
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