we have no choice; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine i had to come to an arrangement with the capital taxes office, that, er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house, i had to open it to the public, quite frankly, if then and even more now, if i had to pay the full amount, i'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years.