Broadlands (country estate)

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Broadlands

Broadlands is a country estate near Romsey near Southampton ( England ).

Originally the site was owned by Romsey Abbey . After the abolition of the monasteries, it was successively owned by Sir Francis Fleming, the St. Barbe family, and finally Humphrey Sydenham. When he lost large parts of his fortune as a result of the South Sea Bubble , he had to sell the property in 1736 to the Temple family , whose head had the Irish title of Viscount Palmerston since 1723 .

In 1767 she had the manor house redesigned in the Palladian style by the famous master builder and landscape architect Capability Brown . The famous park was also created at this time. In 1788 Brown's son-in-law Henry Holland added the eastern front portico and domed hall. Joseph Rose the Elder was responsible for the decorative plastering and was considered to be the expert in this field.

In the mid-19th century, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston , who was British Prime Minister from 1855–1858 and 1859–1865 , lived in Broadlands. He eventually sold the property to his longtime friend and temporary secretary, the liberal politician Evelyn Ashley . His son Wilfrid Ashley, 1st Baron Mount Temple , was Minister of Transport from 1924 to 1929. In 1901 his daughter Edwina was born in Broadlands , one of the richest women of her time. In 1922 she brought Broadlands as a dowry into her marriage to Lord Louis Mountbatten .

In the 1920s and 1930s, the property was a focal point of social life in Great Britain as the seat of the Mountbatten family . In 1947 Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip spent their honeymoon on Broadlands, in 1981 Prince Charles and Princess Diana stayed there for a few weeks.

The current resident is Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma , a grandson of Lord Mountbatten, who was murdered by the IRA in 1979 .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 49.5 ″  N , 1 ° 29 ′ 49 ″  W.