Lady Madonna, children … and chickens … at her feet
Madonna, the mistress of reinvention, has done it again, morphing from Material Girl via kabbalah mystic to lady of the manor for the latest issue of Vogue magazine.
The article, titled “Like a Duchess,” includes a 17-page photo layout of Madonna enjoying the British country life with her director husband Guy Ritchie and her two children at their stately 18th century English estate near Dorset.
One particular photograph presents the incongruous image of Madonna, 46, feeding chickens while dressed in a Grace Kelly-style cashmere and chiffon outfit.
Since purchasing Ashcombe House, a 1,000 acre estate that was once the home of the society photographer Cecil Beaton, Madonna tells the magazine that she has learned to ride horses, shoot and fish.
“It’s a very physical place, a place for adventure,” she gushed. “And as far as the eye can see, you can’t see another house. It’s a kind of buffer against the world.”
Madonna and Ritchie’s quest for privacy provoked protests several years ago when the couple sought to exclude ramblers from exercising their “right to roam” across parts of the property.
In the Vogue article, which also showed Madonna riding and posing in front of a fireplace adorned with equestrian prize ribbons, the Detroit-bred superstar showed she has soaked up more than a pint of British vocabulary while doing her gentry thing.
“The last thing I thought I would do is marry some laddish, shooting, pubgoing nature lover,” she said of Ritchie, who is 10 years her junior. “And the last thing he thought he was going to do was marry some cheeky girl from the Midwest who doesn’t take no for an answer.”
Source: AFP via Yahoo! News