UK: APSLEY HOUSE: HOME OF FIRST DUKE OF WELLINGTON RE-OPENS

I've no doubt that there will be a lot of visitors who will come here, both from Britain and of course from elsewhere in Europe and elsewhere in the world, because the First Duke of Wellington is a figure that almost everyone's heard of, and it's an opportunity to come and see where he lived and see some of the things that he had around him when he was here. Well, we've been very lucky in that there are quite a lot of watercolours which were made at about the time of the First Duke, showing the disposition of the paintings, the hang of the paintings, showing where the furniture was placed, showing details of the carpet. And we've tried, through our research, to go back as closely as possible to a restoration of the house at the time when the First Duke was living here.