In the dark, the sound of the singing bowl emanates around the treatment room. It’s part soothing, part otherworldly and definitely all encompassing. It’s an evocative noise, fitting perhaps given that this is happening in England’s most talked-about spa.
Cliveden House in Berkshire is laden with ‘noise’. There’s the chatter surrounding its Art Deco open-air pool – where the infamous Profumo Affair started, which subsequently toppled Harold Macmillan’s Conservative Government in the 1960s. Then there’s the rumour that the elaborate interiors found in the Grade I listed pile are the basis for Julian Fellowes’ fictional Downton Abbey. When Meghan Markle chose Cliveden as the hotel to rest
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