Described as a “royal love nest for the Middletons” by The Telegraph when last marketed for sale in March 2011, Bolehyde Manor (pronounced according to the paper: “Bow lea Hyde”) in Wilshire was home to the Duchess of Cornwall, as plain old Camilla Parker Bowles, from 1973 until 1986.
Considered, but subsequently discounted by Carole and Michael Middleton as a home prior to their purchase of the £4.7 million The Manor at Bucklebury (featured in The Steeple Times in June 2012), Grade II* listed Bolehyde Manor at Allington, near Chippenham was at that time offered for £4.76 million according to the Daily Mail’s Richard Kay.
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One of Norfolk’s most historic houses for sale for a staggering £3.95 million just a year after it was last sold for £2.75 million
Kay lauded the “14th-century pile near Chippenham” as having “everything an aspiring lord (and lady and the manor could wish for” and reported it as having been “not just where Prince Charles retreated when his marriage crumbled, intriguingly it was also where he courted Lady Diana.”
According to the royal biographer Christopher Wilson – quoted in an article in the Daily Express in May this year – “in 1979, there was very little pretense about the intensity of the relationship between Prince Charles and Camilla. Most of the week he would be staying at Bolehyde Manor, sometimes Andrew Parker Bowles would come home for the weekend and Prince Charles would stay. But there was a very curious ménage à trois between these three.”
Whether the house sold in 2011 is unknown, but this week it has again been placed for sale through agents Savills. They are marketing the manor at a sum £1 million lower for £3.75 million and with it comes 80.13 acres.
Aside from the main 4 reception room, 8-bedroom main house, there is a 3-bedroom annexe and in addition the property has three additional cottages, stabling and outbuildings. There is a tennis court and swimming pool with the grounds and the majority of the land is devoted to organic farming.
One thing is, for sure, the former Meghan Markle won’t be putting in a bid in spite of Bolehyde Manor having glorious gardens that have opened under the National Garden Scheme.
The Names & Numbers – Bolehyde Manor, Allington, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN14 6LW, United Kingdom
June 2020 – For sale for £3.75 million ($4.71 million, €4.21 million or درهم17.31 million) through Savills.
March 2011 – Offered for sale for £4.76 million ($5.98 million, €5.35 million or درهم21.96 million) by the Earl and Countess Cairns.
1986 – Sold for £600,000 ($754,000, €674,000 or درهم2.8 million) by Andrew and Camilla Parker Bowles to Simon and Amanda Cairns.
1973 – Andrew Parker Bowles moves in along with his then wife Camilla.
1927 – Sold to a Mrs Mallet du Cros “in very indifferent repair” by the Gale family according to Country Life. She “restored and modernised it.”
1635 – Sold to a yeoman named John Gale.
Mid 17th century – Built on the site of an earlier house occupied by one Thomas de Bolehyde, a tenant of the Abbot of Glaston-bury.
Pictured top: Carole Middleton, Bolehyde Manor and the Duchess of Cornwall.
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9 comments
It must have been very overpriced 9 years ago if it is £1 million less now!
It needs lots of redecorating – boring interior
Send in the wrecking ball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s an overpriced dump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Raise it to the ground —- a fire might help too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! £4 million smackers for this hovel —– someone is having a giggle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BURN BABY BURN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s glorious. Rod, as usual, is WRONG! I’ll give an extra exclamation mark just for him!
Lovely small estate.
Beautiful.
It really is beautiful, just needs a décor update . Gorgeous
nice
Rod, buildings aren’t raised to the ground! The correct word is razed.