Posh people have the strangest things in their libraries

Talking of libraries, what’s the must-have item? Books, you may think, but Jacob Rees-Mogg was recently photographed in the library of his 17th-century Somerset house and there didn’t appear to be any. A bust of Pitt the Younger, a box of Creme Eggs, a bracelet fashioned from the hair of the horse that the Duke of Wellington rode at Waterloo – given to the Moggster by his wife for

Christmas (what to buy the man who has everything?) – but no books. Still, it’s not as odd as the Duke of Northumberland’s library at Alnwick Castle, where their 16,000 books are accompanied by various stuffed animals – they are keen taxidermists and preserve their family pets this way. And I can’t possibly reveal which duke had an ashtray shaped like a penis in his library.