In this personal and reflective talk, Violet Garnock shares the story of growing up at Belvoir Castle and how a childhood shaped by history, landscape and responsibility ultimately informed her professional path.

Violet will explore how her early experiences of life inside a working historic house fostered a lasting fascination with heritage, storytelling and the evolving role of privately owned estates in modern Britain. She will also reflect on the creation of the Duchess podcast, which she co-founded with her mother between 2020 and 2022 and which reached an audience of more than 2.5 million listeners. Through these conversations, she began to understand the public's powerful appetite for authentic access to historic places and the lives lived within them.