Prince to meet Tyntesfield groups

Tyntesfield was bought by the National Trust for £30m in 2002

The Prince of Wales is to visit Tyntesfield to meet the volunteers who help run it - including one who met his great-grandmother while living there.

Prince Charles will be at the National Trust-owned stately home on Tuesday to see work done by students and helpers.

And among those he will be introduced to is Philippa Perks, who lived at Tyntesfield as an evacuee in the 1940s.

Mrs Perks was staying at the house as a guest of Lady Wraxall when Queen Mary the site in 1941.

A boarder at Clifton High School for Girls when World War II broke out, Mrs Perks went to Tyntesfield when the school's lessons were moved there.

She was later invited to spend her summer holidays helping on the estate's farm and in its gardens.

When the house was bought by the National Trust in 2002, she volunteered to work as a guide, showing parties of visitors around the house.

Prince Charles, the patron of the National Trust, will also hear about its future conservation plans, and a scheme to offer training opportunities for young people at Tyntesfield.