Award-winning hotelier Alex Polizzi and her mother, Olga, who have become equal business partners, start work on a sweeping renovation project at their 37-bedroom medieval coaching inn in east Sussex.
Born February 1946, Olga Polizzi CBE is a British hotelier and interior designer. She is Director of Design for Rocco Forte Hotels and also owns two of her own hotels. She is a former Westminster City Council councillor, representing Lancaster Gate ward for the Conservatives.