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One of Ketton-Cremer’s godsons, Tristram Powell – who is, incidentally, my uncle – was upset.
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The religious festival of Easter was sacrificed to promote Dairy Milk.Īnother infuriating thing is the decision by the Trust to expose Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, the writer who gave Felbrigg Hall to the Trust in 1969, as gay as part of its Prejudice and Pride initiative. Thus the row last Easter, when some were plastered with purple posters saying ‘Join the Cadbury Egg Hunt’. Guidebooks were littered with spelling mistakes: society spelt ‘soceity’ closely spelt ‘closey’.ĭame Helen is leaving the Trust to become Master of Balliol College, OxfordĪnd while the Trust dumbs down its properties, it’s also ruthlessly commercialising them. At Hughenden Manor, Isaac D’Israeli, father of Benjamin Disraeli, the Victorian prime minister, was called ‘Isaace’. Houses and gardens plastered with error-strewn, patronising signs. While researching my talk, I visited Trust properties up and down the country and I was appalled at what I saw.
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Meanwhile, the obligation to take a serious, historical approach to the properties has been woefully neglected. She prefers instead to opine on ‘green’ issues, as an obsessive eco-warrior who claims ‘extreme weather is the single largest threat to our conservation work’. She declared there was ‘so much stuff’ in Trust houses it put everyone apart from the middle-classes off visiting, so exhibits needed to be ‘simplified’. It is symptomatic of an organisation that no longer cares for history.ĭame Helen even removed furniture from the Regency library at Ickworth House in Suffolk, temporarily replacing it with beanbags. Forget beautiful buildings and landscapes what now matters is imposing modern political claptrap on our greatest country houses. Under Dame Helen in particular, that laudable aim appears to have been abandoned. Tory MP Andrew Bridgen is spot on when he says it’s ‘virtue signalling’ gone mad.īacklash: The National Trust has been forced to change its policy on making volunteers wear gay pride badges (pictured) As one volunteer told the Mail, ‘visitors’ sexual preference has never been an issue’ among those who come to view the Hall and enjoy its grounds.
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When 50 of the hall’s 350 volunteers refused to wear the badges – not because they were homophobic but because they felt that being forced to wear badges which had nothing to do with their role infringed their rights – they were banished to backroom jobs, away from view. The Trust’s Prejudice and Pride campaign is yet one more example of the mindset at the top of the organisation that is alienating members and the volunteers who are the Trust’s lifeblood. The latest furore is over an attempt to force staff at Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk to wear ‘rainbow’ ID badges to mark 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality. I have been visiting National Trust properties across the UK for 40 years – yes, even as a toddler on family days out – and I weep for its decline.Īn organisation that was once the pride of Britain has been hijacked by a lethal combination of catastrophic dumbing down, social engineering, rampant politicisation and intolerance of opposing views under its last two director generals, former civil servants Dame Fiona Reynolds and Dame Helen Ghosh.ĭuring their tenures, the Trust has sacrificed its original aims on the altar of political correctness and as a result we – and future generations – are all losers. Earlier this year, I gave a public lecture entitled ‘Betrayal of Trust: how the National Trust is Losing its Way’.