Britain on the Cheap

Robert Sackville-West, 7th Baron Sackville and chairman of Knole Estates, will discuss “The Private Life of a Public Place: 400 Years of the Sackvilles at Knole” March 22 at The Union League of Philadelphia. The Royal Oak Foundation event is $20 for members and non-members, $70 for the lecture and dinner.

Can’t make it to Hidcote Manor Garden, one of England’s great gardens, this year? Glyn Jones, head gardener at Hidcote in Chipping Campden, north Cotswolds, will be discussing “Lawrence Johnston’s Hidcote: A Paradise Enclosed,” along with horticulturalist Ethne Clarke. This Royal Oak Foundation lecture is 2 p.m. Sept. 24 at Filoli in Woodside, Calif. $25 [...]