Protest in Spain at Christie's sale of John Constable's The Lock The bulk of the collection was sold to the Spanish state but 250 works remaining in the Baroness's private collection including the Constable, have been lent free of charge to Spain for the last 13 years. In May, the Baroness, who owns four luxury villas across Spain as well as expensive cars and employs a household staff of around 80 people, announced the sale insisting she needed cash because even multimillionaires were feeling the pinch of the economic crisis. It's very painful for me, (to sell the painting) but there was no other way out. I need the money, I really need it. I have no liquidity. Keeping the collection here is costly to me, and I get nothing in return," she told Spain's leading daily newspaper El Pais. But Sir Norman, claimed the sale of the Constable represented a clear lack of judgment on the part of the Baroness, He wrote: "I am afraid I have to say in my humble opinion she has little or no understanding of art history or of genuine artistic importance in the context of the museum." His biting comments come on the back of criticism from her own stepdaughter, Francesca Von Habsburg, 52, the only daughter of the late-Baron and his third wife, Scottish born model Fiona Campbell-Walter. A fellow trustee on the museum board, she has dismissed claims that her stepmother is short of cash and has branded the decision to sell the Constable as self-serving. The baroness has shown absolutely no respect for my father and she is simply putting her own financial needs above everything else. The proposed sale is entirely self-serving and should not go ahead," she told The Mail on Sunday. She likes to pretend she is a typical Spanish citizen who is struggling just like everyone else but that could not be further from the truth. The Baroness is also locked in a bitter family feud over inheritance with her own son, Borja, who was adopted by the Baron. He is suing the Baroness for a share of the art collection after mother and son fell out over his choice of wife.