A tycoon is selling her iconic Highland castle for £5milllion because the rural area is 'not ready' for it to have a transgender owner, she claimed last night.
A tycoon is selling her iconic Highland castle for £5milllion because the rural area is ‘not ready’ for it to have a transgender owner, she claimed last night.
The multi-millionaire barrister has ploughed millions of pounds of her fortune into restoring Carbisdale Castle, near Bonar Bridge, Sutherland, to its former glory after fulfilling her dream to become a ‘princess in her own fairytale’ by buying the 117-year-old property in 2022. But ‘in the best interest for its future’ she has decided to sell the imposing 19-bedroom property in the hope a new custodian can take her vision forward.
Ms Kane, 64, told the Mail: ‘It has been a labour of love mostly. But when people sit in their bedrooms writing on social media they have to realise the effect that has on some people. I really have been quite hurt by comments on my gender identity, so now I think it just needs someone, for a better word, “normal” to take over.
‘It’s really such an important landmark and my main concern is to see it preserved and to see it respected.’Ms Kane behind the bar at Carbisdale Castle. She was restoring it at a reported cost of £10million and plans to welcome paying guests Her decision comes after plans to preserve the castle ended in angry recriminations and a visit from the police last November when she faced the wrath of locals over her proposal to bring land surrounding the castle into public ownership for a third time, which she was later granted.
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