Here’s a bit of real-life Downton Abbey for you:  The dowager Duchess of Devonshire’s personal estate and effects were auctioned off this week in London.  (Think Maggie Smith’s inimitable Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham)  Sotheby’s was surprised by the over $2,000,000 in proceeds from the sale.  But I’m not.  To ...

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