This episode is brought to you by Fully Gemstones.

Do you see the jewelry that's passed down as important as the pictures or the furniture?

Most definitely.

Jewelry is up there and it's a great honour and privilege to be able to wear it for these unbelievable occasions.

And it tells the story of the family as much as anything.

Yeah, you're carrying on that baton. You're just a custodian and that doesn't really belong to you.

Welcome to If Jels Could Talk.

I'm Carol Walton, the voice of jewellery, an author, broadcaster, and the woman who initiated

the role of Jewelry editor at magazines like Taffler and British Vogue.

This is a podcast for everyone.

For people who do like jewellery, for people who don people who do like jewellery,

for people who don't realise they like jewellery,

and anyone intrigued by fascinating facts,

new ideas and forgotten histories.

So please join me as I tell sparkly tales,

meeting sorts of people delving into four centuries of jewellery culture and investigate what's happening now.

It's a few days before Christmas and I've come to Leicestershire in England to visit the historic

beaver castle, the stately home of the

manors family, the dukes and duchesses of Rutland since about 1067. They've lived on the site,

although we'll find out later this is a regency castle. Now from the outside, they're about,

you can see, maybe over 200 rooms, they're parapets and turrets.

So one imagines the life of the Duchess to be all Tiara's butlers and diamonds.

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