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Mon 15th July 2013
BBC Adaptation Filmed at Castle Howard
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If you visited the House between Sunday 30th June and Friday 12th July you will not have failed to notice the large number of TV vehicles, scaffolding and lighting rigs outside the house - not to mention the many elegant characters in costume lounging in the sunshine on the South Front steps.

We were delighted to be chosen as one of the main locations for a new three-part drama ‘Death Comes to Pemberley’, which is to be shown at Christmas on the BBC.

‘Death Comes to Pemberley’ is adapted from PD James's international bestselling novel of the same name. Written as a ‘sequel’ to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, it picks up the story of Elizabeth and Darcy six years into their marriage.

Filming took place in the bedrooms and South Front rooms, as well as in the Walled Garden and Temple of the Four Winds.

Castle Howard played host to a star-studded cast, which included Anna Maxwell Martin (Elizabeth), Matthew Rhys (Darcy), Matthew Goode (Wickham), Penelope Keith (Lady Catherine de Bourgh) and Trevor Eve (Sir Selwyn Hardcastle).

The director Daniel Percival thanked the Howard family and staff for their “kindness, patience and support” as the cast and crew undertook a mammoth eleven day shoot, with many scenes wrapped in the early hours of the morning.

After leaving Castle Howard the crew headed south to film at Chatsworth. Other locations for the drama include Harewood House, Newby Hall and York.