Chapter 2061 The Weight of the Crown Prince

As for William, the outside world has mixed reviews. Negative reviews generally say that he is hypocritical, but this word actually exists in everyone, but it is infinitely magnified in him.

In other words, is there any hypocrisy in the royal family? At least you can put on a show, right? This is one of their daily jobs. If they don't even care about putting on a show, then why don't they come out and walk the rivers and lakes in the name of the royal family.

Among other things, William's perfect performance in etiquette is enough for those rich second and rich third generations to study hard.

But when he was with these friends including Yang Cheng, William would put down his airs, and he was not far from the second year boy.

This guy didn't know if he was hungry or something. While chatting with Yang Cheng, he even brought over the snacks his daughter had mowed his teeth, and threw them into his mouth one by one, complaining, "Why couldn't I eat them when I was young?" Such a delicious snack?"

Yang Cheng was speechless, "When you were young, I guess this brand hadn't been born yet."

William laughed loudly, "Anything to do tonight?"

"Nothing, what's the matter?"

"It's still the same thing as last time~"

Yang Cheng frowned, "Buying a castle? I said I'm not interested~"

"Listen to me, this time my father is going to hold a party and invite powerful foreign businessmen to attend. I hope everyone will donate money to help the royal family restore some legendary manors."

Yang Cheng heard something strange, "Surely people won't pay for it for no reason. There are rewards, right?"

William smiled meaningfully, "You know, compared to my second pick, my father is the real crown prince. His words carry more weight than mine. If you can help him solve this trouble this time, I will I think he will not be stingy to add your name to the list of promotion to the nobility."

Yang Cheng was speechless, after all, didn't she have to spend her own money to buy it?

But it's not bad if you think about it carefully. It's better to solve it with money than directly owe favors. He doesn't want his relationship with William to change.

"Well, I will go and have a look at that time, but how much I will pay in the end depends on the situation."

Now a non-real nobleman is not worth tens of millions of pounds, because he is not British at all, and he doesn't have that much obsession with the title of nobility. He just wants to buy himself a guarantee.

"certainly,

we'll talk about it then. "

"But can you tell me about it? Which manors has Prince Charles prepared?"

William froze for a moment, "I don't know, he did a good job of keeping secrets, but there must be some of the most famous ones."

best known? There are many well-known manors in the UK, such as Highclere Manor, Howard Manor, the prototype of Downton Abbey, and Pemberley Manor, which made Elizabeth's heart beat in the BBC version of "Pride and Prejudice". The manors that are the ultimate pursuit of exquisiteness are now more and more lonely.

Of course, there are also well-maintained ones, such as Highclere Castle, and the real-life version of Pemberley Hall, the largest Lyme estate in Cheshire.

This large estate south of Disley in Cheshire includes a castle surrounded by gardens in a deer park.

This manor should now belong to the trust fund of the Lyme family, and it will be opened for tourists to visit after repairs. Because this is the most beautiful and largest manor in Cheshire, tourists have been visiting it since it opened.

However, since the BBC filmed "Pride and Prejudice", its label is not "Cheshire's largest estate", but Mr. Darcy's Pemberley estate.

Before Yang Cheng bought Beihai Manor, he studied the history of British manors. Lime Manor was naturally among them. The manor is located among rolling hills within a radius of tens of kilometers. lawn and reddish-brown vegetation.

The lawn and vegetation are dotted with dark green pines and golden trees, forming an ecological group of slope vegetation with intertwined distances and different colors, which is particularly enchanting against the blue sky.

On the open land near the valley, there stands a group of Canggu royal buildings, behind which there is a pool of clear stream, and on the slope is a green lawn.

Over the hill is the core castle of Lyme Manor. It is also here that the heroine Elizabeth and the hero Mr. Darcy in the drama version of "Pride and Prejudice" reveal their thoughts to each other, and finally achieve their beautiful love. With the success of Pride and Prejudice, many movie fans came to Lyme Manor to visit.

It seems that the well-preserved and self-financing manors in Britain today have a wonderful connection with TV dramas.

The same is true of Downton Abbey to Highclere Castle.

In the past, after having wealth, titles, and power, what else did the aristocracy pursue?

Just like the modern plutocrats, the aristocrats competed for conspicuous competitive consumption, even envious consumption.

However, in those years, what they showed off was not the giant private yachts and private jets of the contemporary international rich. In this regard, the best way to show their peers and society their wealth, power and taste was to build or expand luxury country mansions.

Country mansions are not just huge luxurious mansions and manors built by noble landowners in the countryside, nor are they just mansions used by nobles to show off their wealth. More precisely, they are "houses of power" and mansions of the ruling class.

During the Tudor dynasty, the Black Death crisis passed, internal wars were less, and the society tended to be stable. Nobles and landlords built manor-style houses in the countryside. This type of manor house was much larger and thicker than ordinary houses. Compared with the luxurious mansions of later generations, it seems much simpler.

In the late 18th century and early 19th century, with the strong financial resources from the development of industry and commerce, whether in England or the surrounding Celtic areas, country manor houses increased in large numbers, and the mansions in the original aristocratic fiefdoms were even more Expansive or remodeled.

Take the Chatsworth House of the Duke of Devonshire as an example. This aristocratic stronghold that had appeared as early as the pre-Norman period was built as a luxurious residence for the nobility during the Elizabeth I period.

The first Duke of Devonshire, who played an important role in the Glorious Revolution, later expanded it into a palace-style mansion that is a model of Baroque architecture in England. At the beginning of the 19th century, the sixth Duke expanded and renovated it to become more majestic;

Together with the leased land, the entire manor covers an area of ​​35,000 acres (142 square kilometers), and the garden part covers 1,000 acres. In the 18th and 19th centuries, several generations of dukes devoted themselves to building and beautifying the garden in the garden—the famous 105-acre Chateau Dodsworth Exquisite Gardens.

William asked the butler to find Prince Charles for the list, and introduced them to Yang Cheng one by one, "The Churchill family of the Duke of Marlborough built Brennan Palace near Oxford. This is not bad."

"This name is a bit strange~" Yang Cheng took the photo and looked at it.

"Brennan is the place where the first duke won the decisive battle with the French army on the European continent. It is located in Austria."

Yang Cheng nodded, "Not bad."

Looking at the photos, the main body of the mansion is also a majestic Baroque palace-style building, which should be one of the most magnificent palace-style buildings in the UK.

The key point is that the former owners of this house, the Churchill family was not a wealthy family with a long history and a large amount of land. It was not easy to build such a large palace-style mansion. The gratitude and rewards for military exploits also depend on the good relationship between Duchess Sarah and the Queen.

The following generations of Dukes of Marlborough were not good at managing money, and the family was often in financial distress. Now the manor should be jointly owned by the royal family and the descendants of the Churchill family.

Then Yang Cheng saw Clifden's mansion, which is not far from Heathrow Airport in the western suburbs of London. It was the main country luxury mansion of the Duke of Buckingham in the 17th century. It has a unique location, a beautiful environment, and the main building. From the hands of famous teachers.

The mansion has been patronized by Vulcan repeatedly, and it is not until 1851 that the building built for the second Duke of Sutherland has survived to this day.

In 1893, Astor, a wealthy American, purchased the Clifden mansion and manor. In the middle of the 20th century, the family donated it to the public and managed it by the National Trust. In the middle of the 20th century, the main building was leased to Stanford University in the United States. Now it has been renovated into a country luxury hotel, and the garden part is open to the public.

The manors of British nobles are scattered all over the country. In North Yorkshire, more than 20 kilometers away from York City, there is an extremely magnificent and splendid Baroque building, which is the Howard Manor Mansion.

But this is not the original castle. Howard Manor is built near the old castle, so it still uses the old name.

Most of Howard Manor was built between 1699 and 1712 by Charles Howard, the third Earl of Carlisle, and Sir Vanbrugh, who was a playwright at the time and later became a famous architect.

The mansion is surrounded by 13,000 acres of land including several villages. The Baroque structure originally designed by Vanbrugh included two symmetrical wings. After many years of construction, the east wing and the part including the central dome were completed between 1701 and 1706.

The West Wing remained unfinished until the deaths of Vanbrugh and the 3rd Earl, as the Earl's energies turned to the gardens and woodlands, and in fact, work was carried out intermittently until it was finally completed in 1811.

This building is neither a castle nor an ordinary aristocratic mansion, but it is more magnificent, luxurious and beautiful than many palaces.

It has been owned by the Howard family for more than three hundred years. Howard Manor has many exquisite gardens and lakes, which make people marvel at the luxurious and luxurious lifestyle of the British aristocracy.

It is much more luxurious than the current Beihai Manor. If you have to compare it, Beihai Manor is at best a condensed version of Howard's End.

No way, this kind of thing is incomparable. Several generations of the family have spent hundreds of years to supplement and perfect it one by one. Beihai Manor has only been in Yang Cheng's hands for a few days?

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