One of the largest castles in Britain, the Norman-style property was built in the early 19th century on the site of a 15th-century manor house.
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Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
The two leaders will tour archives related to Britain's wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill, hold their official bilateral meeting and host a joint news conference on the grounds of the 16th-century manor house.
In June, it was announced that the festival’s colorful founder, Jean-Pierre Blanc, would step down amid a saga that unspooled with as many twists and turns as the switchback road leading up to the villa.
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Vogue,
Vogue,
20 Oct. 2025
Back were the villas and the apartments, the chauffeurs and the mistresses swaddled in foreign luxury.
The five-star hotel recently completed a massive renovation, bringing an even more regal feel to the lobby and other common areas, including a spectacular crystal chandelier that depicts a castle.
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Megan duBois,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
After the pair inspected the guards on the lawn of the nearly 1,000-year-old castle, they were pictured chatting outdoors.
The Republican president had said in July when the project was announced that the ballroom would not interfere with the mansion itself.
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Dave Smith,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
Per a source close to Iza, to increase attendance, Chapell had invited patrons from a nearby bar, who had arrived drunk and trashed the bar area of the mansion, urinating and defecating on the marble floors.
For Dhar, the ability for people with estates to opt out isn’t good enough in most cases.
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Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
The complaints focus on the investigation into Russian election interference in 2016 and the classified documents case that involved an FBI raid at his Mar-a-Lago estate, per the Times.
There were five more minutes left to play — in Emery’s view, sufficient time to attack with greater structure, moving slowly with numbers upfield.
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Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
Despite the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn in December 1938 and significant achievements of other German physicists and chemists in research on the structure of the atom, the Nazis were not rushing to put that research to use.
Schuster said the Fujian is more likely a stepping stone, and China’s next carrier, the Type 004, on which early construction is believed to have begun, will incorporate lessons learned from it.
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Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
26 Oct. 2025
Alphabet pledged $22 million of the settlement money to go toward the ballroom construction.
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