Gayle King shares video of Oprah Winfrey reading to her grandson Luca in a sweet 70th birthday tribute. With the Tarzan-and-Jane era more or less behind them – while he was swinging that mace in the cabinet and carving out a niche as the best Conservative prime minister that never was, she was on the boards of four major museums – the Heseltines have finally written the book that they have talked about for years.

Now the Heseltines want more people to enjoy the peace, tranquillity and beauty of Thenford so they’ve extended the number of opening days this year.

What comes shining through in this delightful book and also in the flesh, is just how much pleasure the Heseltines have had from watching their Thenford dream take shape' Daily Mail. Since the photos are old press photographs they may have scratches, lines, or other wears of time, which just underlines the authenticity and age of the photos.

So there's that wonderful moment when there are primroses, snowdrops and forgetmenots altogether in the spring garden, and it’s suddenly a sea of bloom. It feels like a little citadel of a lamented and non-pyromaniac conservatism, a conservatism that treasures the past and carefully seeks to augment and protect it. The ultimate Valentine's Day countdown - here are 10 romantic gestures to help sweep your partner off their feet!Press photos have been available to the public for just a few years, and similar to baseball cards, they have attracted investors and collectors. I run my hand over the list of questions about the state of the Conservative party and her husband’s forceful interventions in the Brexit debate that I’ve written down on my way here, smile back, and try to think of something intelligent to say about snowdrops. In their own words, Michael and Anne Heseltine describe the ups and downs of how they set about transforming and expanding a wild, overgrown and often dilapidated woodland into the magnificent garden they have today.

She means Alan Yentob and his wife Philippa Walker, who, it should be said, has a long and serious list of documentary credits to her name. EXCLUSIVEKate is reunited with her three children for the first time in two weeks after leaving hospital. Before I go, then, I ask if the book marks an end point of sorts; if the great project of their lives is complete. With his wife Anne, the former Tory minister has gone from swinging the mace in the Commons to running one of the great English gardens.

One of the statistics that stuck with me from the book, I say, was that the Heseltines have shot a genocidal 300 grey squirrels for the protection of small birds and trees in just six months.

Although my favourite garden is the cascading rill, a stunning water feature comprising nine interconnected pools. He’s out there somewhere, I guess, lecturing an errant sapling, as he has acknowledged that he occasionally must, or taking issue with a squirrel.An image arrives of a prehistoric political titan, mace in hand, doggedly propelling his stone-age vehicle onwards with his feet. It’s been a labour of love,’ admits Lord Heseltine, 89, who enjoyed a long career in front line politics. In this print from November 1990, we catch a glimpse of Anne Heseltine, the wife of Michael Heseltine MP. Anne and Michael take me on a tour in one of their ‘his and hers’ golf buggies, which they use to visit the four corners of the gardens most evenings. We’re meeting the day after David Cameron’s former spin doctor Craig Oliver’s incendiary diaries were splashed across the Mail on Sunday, revealing the bitter divides that the referendum created in the government, and putting the boot into Brexiteers such as Boris Johnson.