Chatsworth House - Episode Guide

Chatsworth is transformed, with 30 Christmas trees, 60,000 baubles, and a million fairy lights. But with unprecedented flooding, can family and staff rally to make this a season to be remembered?

Behind the scenes at the stately home belonging to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, following preparations for this year's Christmas festivities, planning for which begins at the height of summer. After months with no paying visitors due to Covid-19, the budget has had to be drastically cut, but the staff delve into the storerooms to recycle decorations from years past. Plans are also underway to make an ambitious light trail through the gardens.

In the first edition, the Covid-19 pandemic breaks out just as the house is about to be opened to the public for the year, sending staff racing to make the house safe for visitors in time.

An invasion of moths attack the 170-year-old carpet in the Sixth Duke's library, while the gardens are reopened, and on the estate farms, 3500 new lambs are born.

A dry spring leaves the house facing a water shortage in high summer, but head gardener Steve sets to work on a Victorian irrigation system to recharge lakes and fountains.

Abseiling surveyors check the condition of the gold leaf-coated window frames that were recently the subject of expensive renovation - but come back with a nasty discovery.

As winter arrives and 2020 draws to a close, the team look to the future.