Miriam Strong shoots Rupert Francis John Carington, the seventh Baron Carrington of Upton, at his Bledlow Manor and gardens in her latest editorial for NZZ.

The 77-year-old lord and amateur gardener has just lost his hereditary seat in the House of Lords. Over coffee at his estate in Buckinghamshire, he speaks of his frustration at the erosion of old traditions in the kingdom and of the shortcomings of current politics.