Millbrook B&B owner reveals 'to the Manor born' secret
A couple from Cornwall with a major secret have pitched their bed and breakfast business against others from across the UK in the Channel 4 television show.
Viewers will see Megan Edgcumbe and her partner Richard Stanley throw open the doors of the Manor Lodge Hotel, at Millbrook, and take turns staying with three other couples at their B&Bs – and pay what they consider fair for their stay – in the show Four in A Bed.
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Megan Edgcumbe and Dick Stanley outside their Manor Lodge B&B which features on Channel 4's Four in a Bed on Tuesday
The couple, who also have the Mark of Friendship pub in the South East Cornwall village, have been running Manor Lodge for four years. They said they were keen to put the area on the tourist map.
Ms Edgcumbe, said: "Millbrook is the forgotten corner of Cornwall, and we applied to go on the programme to highlight this most beautiful location in the heart of Cornwall and on the doorstep of Plymouth.
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"We wanted to promote our B&B, but also support other businesses in the area."
Tonight's episode features a hotel in Liverpool. Millbrook stars tomorrow, followed by Somerset, and Suffolk, as the four pairs of B&B owners take it in turns as hosts, in a contest to decide which of their establishments provides the best value for money.
During tomorrow's 5pm programme, Ms Edgcumbe reveals she is actually Lady Edgcumbe. Her father Robert Edgcumbe became the eighth Earl of Edgcumbe in 1982.
Mr Stanley added: "We really enjoyed going on the programme, and it took two weeks to film and was absolutely brilliant.
"When the other couples came to Cornwall they travelled to the historic Edgcumbe estate where we reveal Megan's secret as Lady Edgcumbe."
Comments
by CharlieDodd
Monday, January 14 2013, 7:32PM
“..'During tomorrow's programme Ms Edgcumbe reveals she is actually Lady Edgcumbe. Her father Robert Edgcumbe became the eighth Earl of Edgcumbe'..
Good for you luv, make sure you mention it in all the guidebooks, the yanks in particular lurv to see aristocratic seats”
by eniel
Monday, January 14 2013, 4:01PM
“I lived in the former winter Villa of Lady Edgcumbe. situated at Devils point . Better known as Nazareth House. She sold it to the Sisters of Charity in a peppercorn sale in 1932. It is now a residential/ nursing home, recently rebuilt again because of asbestos insitu, when rebuilt in the early seventies. Maybe I should write a story, into a television play. Uhhmm.”
by josdave
Monday, January 14 2013, 3:21PM
“Most people knew the Titanic sank in 1912 but it didn't stop masses of people queueing up to watch it all over again.”
by Waltersmith
Monday, January 14 2013, 10:12AM
“Well since we know the secret there is no point in watching it”