Richard Young
Published:
3:00 PM April 1, 2021
Explore beautiful gardens across Herts this spring and help support charities with the NGS
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With the country opening up again like a spring bloom, we can set our sights once more on exploring the county, including visiting some of Hertfordshire’s wonderful gardens.
It was nearly a century ago that the future king George VI drove his sports car to St Paul’s Walden Bury to try for the third time to gain the hand in marriage of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Here at her family’s country estate near Hitchin, Bertie finally persuaded the future Queen Mother to marry him. On the afternoon of Sunday, April 11 you can walk in their footsteps as the estate, still in the ownership of the Bowes-Lyons, opens its doors for the charitable National Garden Scheme.