Castle Howard Castle Howard Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, north of York. It is a private residence, and has been the home of the Carlisle branch of the Howard family for more than 300 years. Castle Howard is not a true castle, but this term is also used for English country houses erected on the site of a former military castle. It is familiar to television and film audiences as the fictional "Brideshead", both in Granada Television's 1981 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited" and a two-hour 2008 remake for cinema. Today, it is part of the
Greville Howard, Baron Howard of Rising peer as Baron Howard of Rising, of Castle Rising in the County of Norfolk. He has been a councillor on King's Lynn and West Norfolk Council from 2003. A member of the influential Howard family, Howard is the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Redvers Greville Howard, son of Sir Charles Alfred Howard, second son of the Hon. Greville Howard, second son of Charles Howard, 17th Earl of Suffolk. His mother is Patience, daughter of Charles Nicholl. Lord Howard of Rising has married three times. Firstly he married Zoe Walker, daughter of Douglas Walker, in 1968. Divorced in 1972, he married secondly,