Daughter of the House and General Factotum” read the inscription on the busi­ness card Sophie Barker handed me. She was born six weeks after her parents pur­chased the semi-derelict Larnach Castle in 1967, and it has been home for most of her life. “We grew up here, and the family did a lot of the restoration and gardens ourselves. In fact, we have only just now employed our first full-time gardener.”