The lawns of the 40-bedroom house sweep down to the park's boating lake and the 200-year-old home has been described as the 'definition of Western civilization' by one architectural critic.
London's priciest-ever house goes up for sale for £250millionA mystery buyer has snapped up what was set to become Britain's most expensive home for just over half its asking price after the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia put the squeeze on his royal relatives.
The asking price was a record-breaking £250million but nearly two years on it has exchanged hands for a much-reduced £139million. The freehold of The Holme is owned by the Crown Estate but the long lease on the Regency masterpiece was sold by the British Government to a Kuwaiti businessman for just £5million in 1984.
Prince Khaled was not among them, but the crackdown coincided with a 'massive' deterioration in his finances, according to advisers who spoke to the FT.
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