Cliveden House

Image: © Mark Percy Taken: 2 Nov 2021

The present Grade I listed house was built in 1851 by the architect Charles Barry for the 2nd Duke of Sutherland. Cliveden has been the home to a Prince of Wales, two Dukes, an Earl, and finally the Viscounts Astor. As the home of Nancy Astor, wife of the 2nd Viscount Astor, Cliveden was the meeting place of the Cliveden Set of the 1920s and 30s — a group of political intellectuals. During the early 1960s when it was the home of the 3rd Viscount Astor, it became the setting for key events of the notorious Profumo affair. After the Astor family stopped living there, by the 1970s it was leased to Stanford University, which used it as an overseas campus. Today the house is leased to a company that runs it as a five-star hotel. https://www.clivedenhouse.co.uk/ The wider estate is owned by the National Trust and with more than 500,000 visitors each year, is one of its most popular paid-for-entry places. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/cliveden

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