Lord of the Manor

The eighteenth Earl of Pembroke, or Lord Herbert is 28 and has the mightly task of running his families' 14,000 acre estate. The job has been past down to the eldest male heir since the manor was built in 1542. The land was given to his family by King Henry the 8th with around 20 bedrooms, 14 farms, 200 residential properties and over 140 employees. The estate is also quite large tourist atraction getting around 70,000 visiters a year. The manor has an ancient sculpture collection, the largest private collection of Anthony Van Dyek paintings, very old and traditional furniture and large extensive english gardens. Lord Pembroke has his own private quarters in the mansion, but he spends most of his time in the modernized library with a 43-inch plasma-screen TV stocked full with DVDs. The long dark corridors bring nightmares and the past to life, and as a child one of the Earl's favorite activities was exploring the vast array of secret rooms in the manor. While the mansion and grounds are huge there is always people around, staff, visitors, watchmen or residents. His favorite family heirloom is a lock of Queen Elizabeth 1st's hair.