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HYLAND in no way sundered the couple's passionate devotion and friendship for one another, documented in their son Nigel Nicolson's 1973 biography of Vita, Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. If the mythos of Knole is forever linked to that of Vita Sackville-West, it is equally notable that the authoress did not spend all of her sometimes flamboyant adult life there, for, due to the Salic rules of primogeniture followed by the Sackvilles, Vita, an only child, did not inherit Knole upon the death of her father Lionel (1867- 1930), the 3rd Lord Sackville, who bequeathed the estate instead to his nephew Charles. The wrenching loss of Knole shadowed Vita her whole life long, and in 1947 she formally relinquished any claim on the property as part of its transition to the National Trust: "the signing…nearly broke my heart, putting my signature to what I regarded as a betrayal of all the tradition of my ancestors and the house I loved." One of Vita's most famous books is the classic English country house chronicle, Knole and the Sackvilles, John Miller

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