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Title: Tycoon buys Queen Mother estate
Post by: Wombat on January 12, 2006, 04:36:47 AM

Tycoon buys Queen Mother estate ~ Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=IVCRDLI5SZ0GHQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2006/01/12/nwemm12.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/12/ixhome.html)

QuoteWemmergill Moor, in Co Durham, which includes six tenanted farms, had been in the ownership of the late Queen Mother's Bowes Lyon family for 444 years

Title: Re: Tycoon buys Queen Mother estate
Post by: Beebs on January 12, 2006, 07:10:35 AM

444 years, wow!

Title: Re: Tycoon buys Queen Mother estate
Post by: Windsor on January 12, 2006, 06:55:51 PM

I don't like it when property that has been owned by one family for that long gets new management <_<

Title: Re: Tycoon buys Queen Mother estate
Post by: Wombat on January 13, 2006, 07:30:20 AM

It is a shame for it not to stay in the family -_-

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Modern & Historical Discussions => Royalty & Aristocracy Throughout History => Topic started by: Wombat on January 12, 2006, 04:36:47 AM