Access
The estate and house are open to the public during the summer months (1 July to 30 August) All profits made are donated to the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. The estate was first opened to the public in 1953 by the 7th Earl Spencer, to mitigate against taxation. The estate had its own railway station called Althorp Park on the Northampton Loop Line until 1960. When the royal train visited after the public funeral for the Princess of Wales, it travelled instead to Long Buckby railway station.
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“Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
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Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)