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A title and a Kennedy

A title and a Kennedy – 4 Buckingham Place, Westminster, London, SW1E 6HR – For sale: £9.45 million ($14.31 million, €12.95 million) - Lee Radziwill – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Former London home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ sister Lee Radziwill for sale for £9.45 million

 

Thrice married American socialite, public relations executive and interior decorator Lee Radziwill has thus far worked her way through eleven titles and styles during her eighty-two year life. She’s variously been a Miss, a Mrs, a Princess and a Dowager Princess and just as was the case for her sister, the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, her life has been a whirlwind of drama, glamour and heartache. Her former London home is currently for sale for £9.45 million ($14.31 million, €12.95 million).

 

Jacqueline Kennedy and her sister, Lee Radziwill, depart 4 Buckingham Place on 28th March 1972 to attend a luncheon with Queen Elizabeth II
Cecil Beaton photographed Lee Radziwill and her son, Anthony, in the Renzo Mongiardino designed drawing room at 4 Buckingham Place for the December 1966 edition of “Vogue”
The drawing room is decorated in a far more tame fashion today

 

The owner of residences in London, New York and Paris at various points, Radziwill moved to a double fronted townhouse in Buckingham Place, Westminster with her second husband Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł (1914 – 1976) in 1959. Its interior was “fashioned” by the acclaimed Italian decorator and set designer Lorenzo ‘Renzo’ Mongiardino (1916 – 1998) and in 1966, Radziwill was photographed by Sir Cecil Beaton CBE (1904 – 1980) in the newly redecorated drawing room.

 

In 2013, Mongiardino’s scheme for the room was described by Architectural Digest as having an “Ottoman-meets-Moghul atmosphere both unmistakably hip – it was the Age of Aquarius, after all—and hypnotically sensuous” but now, after a full-scale renovation by the current owners in 2012, the decoration of the 5,360 square foot, five-storey house is far more neutral.

 

Featuring 7 bedrooms – including a master suite of a bedroom, two dressing rooms and two bathrooms that occupies the entire first floor – the house also includes three reception rooms, a roof terrace and an open plan dining kitchen that opens onto a garden designed by Lady Lennox-Boyd.

 

The exterior of 4 Buckingham Place. Westminster, London, SW1E 6HR
The dining kitchen opens directly onto the garden
There is also a more formal dining room
One of seven bedrooms
There is a garden designed by Arabella Lennox Boyd and a fifth floor roof terrace with views over Westminster

 

4 Buckingham Place is for sale through Hathaways.

 

 

 

 

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