To the Manor Born new Lord of the Manor is Richard DeVere, a recently widowed self-made millionaire who started his career on an East End fruit barrow and founded the "Cavendish Foods" supermarket chain, who to Audrey is simply a "grocer". DeVere brings his domineering mother, who is soon nicknamed by Audrey 'Mrs. Poo', her full name being Maria Jaroslava Vladimira Martinka Polouvicka. She reveals to Audrey, who does not like foreigners, that she and her son came to Britain in 1939 from Czechoslovakia, and that Richard, whose real name is Bedrich Polouvicek, is half-Polish (on his late father Lazlo's side) and half-Czechoslovakian. Mrs.
Manor house in Podstolice Manor house in Podstolice Manor house in Podstolice () - historic manor house in Podstolice, in Września Country, in Greater Poland. This is a manor house of wooden construction from 1890, it has a basement and two floors. The building of 1200 m² is surrounded by a hundred-year-old park with a pond. The history of the manor house goes back to the nineteenth century, when the owner of Podstolice village was count Hedogron Kierski. He started the construction of a neoclassical building in 1890. In 1920 the owner of Podstolice was Baron Stronbetzky. In the interwar period it became the