Published: June 02, 2012
Words: 35,492 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780957298118

Short description

Check into your own castle or folly, or stately home hotel on grand estate with this illustrated guide to over 100 properties in England, Scotland & Wales. Includes the Royal Shopping Directory.

Extended description

Visiting castles, palaces and stately homes is a pleasure, but sleeping in them is a thrill. Written by British travel journalist, Sorrel Downer, the Royal Holiday Handbook is your guide to Britain’s most unique and exclusive accommodation. From stately home hotels and inns on royal estates, to castles, follies and cliff-top forts to rent and call your very own (if only for a week or weekend), each has been hand-picked for combining a history of romance and scandal with the necessary towers, turrets and moats. Over the centuries, they have hosted kings, queens, dukes, lairds, mistresses, knights, social climbers - and the occasional ghost! Now restored, luxuriously furnished (and equipped with all mod cons), the same royal hospitality is extended to you.
Plus discover where the Royal Family buy their gifts, jewels, kippers, gloves, cereal, champagne, shirts and handmade shoes and shop for the Best of British with The Royal Shopping Directory. Features over 100 holiday properties. .. (Read more) Visiting castles, palaces and stately homes is a pleasure, but sleeping in them is a thrill. Written by British travel journalist, Sorrel Downer, the Royal Holiday Handbook is your guide to Britain’s most unique and exclusive accommodation. From stately home hotels and inns on royal estates, to castles, follies and cliff-top forts to rent and call your very own (if only for a week or weekend), each has been hand-picked for combining a history of romance and scandal with the necessary towers, turrets and moats. Over the centuries, they have hosted kings, queens, dukes, lairds, mistresses, knights, social climbers - and the occasional ghost! Now restored, luxuriously furnished (and equipped with all mod cons), the same royal hospitality is extended to you.
Plus discover where the Royal Family buy their gifts, jewels, kippers, gloves, cereal, champagne, shirts and handmade shoes and shop for the Best of British with The Royal Shopping Directory. Features over 100 holiday properties. Illustrated.
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Review by: Sugartown on June 11, 2012 :
As an avid reader (books, newspapers, magazines) I've just started to delve into the world of ebooks and as I was browsing I was struck by the authors name which I recognised as a journalist whose work I've always enjoyed as being thought provoking, well researched and well written. And this book is no exception. Even if you aren't 'royally' inclined, the information and the stories behind the properties are fascinating and the tone and balance are just right, with the right mixture of information and historical nuggets. With the occasional flash of humour thrown into the mix. Highly recommended!
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