Article: LAIRD IS SET TO BE LABOUR'S NEW LADY; Why Traquair's aristocrat now wants to work in Tony's manor.(Features)

CATHERINE MAXWELL STUART, the 21st Laird of Traquair, wants to go to the Palace of Westminster.

Not to the Lords, or even as a Tory, but to represent Roxburgh and Berwickshire in the Commons as one of Blair's Babes.

The county set is still in shock. All that and a likely ban on fox hunting from Catherine's chosen party is making them choke over brandies in drawing rooms on both sides of the border.

Such inexplicable behaviour is not quite that which someone from Catherine's background is supposed to do, not when you are to the manor born, mistress ...

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