Buy a banana and it will almost certainly be descended from one plant grown at an English stately home. But now we face losing one of the world's best-loved fruits.

Deborah Cavendish, 94, the dowager duchess of Devonshire who was the last of England's witty, unconventional Mitford sisters, died Wednesday, her son said.

Chatsworth House is the seat of the Duke of Devonshire, and has been home to the Cavendish family since 1549. Photograph by Ian Teh / Panos Pictures / Redux ...

The Cavendish Hotel at Baslow. Photography Anna Batchelor. On the interiors, Harding comments, “The interiors grew out of the personal story of the Devonshire family and their connection to the ...

The Duke of Devonshire was one of Britain's greatest landowners, with estates in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Sussex and Ireland. He was born Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, second son of the 10th Duke, in ...

Chatsworth is home to the Cavendish family. It comprises a Grade I listed house and stables, 105-acre garden, a 1,822-acre park, farmyard and adventure playground, and one of Europe’s most ...

The Cavendish Hotel at Baslow — which is today part of the Chatsworth Estate, in the Derbyshire Dales — came into the hands of the Devonshire family in the 1830s, via somewhat unconventional means. In ...