After 10 years as a dressage champion, Lucinda McAlpine abandoned the whips, the polish and primping and let her horses return to their natural state – shaggy and free. Now her happy herd help to nurture stressed and beleaguered humans…
The journalist and broadcaster loves to return to Suffolk, where she’s in foodie heaven and, she says, the local picture house, clothes boutique, toy shop and pier arcade are the best in Britain. She spends four months of the year living in the Suffolk village where she was brought up, as was her father before her.
Fancy getting the stately treatment on a speck in the tropics, with a staff of 30 to grant your every wish (like a sudden need for cheese ice-cream)? Yes please, says Emma Freud