Stately home Dumfries House finally opened to the public
Dumfries House, which has been in the same aristocratic family for more than 200 years, contains one of the greatest collections of Chippendale furniture ever assembled.
When the Daily Telegraph revealed last year that the building and its furniture were to be sold separately it caused an outcry among heritage experts who regard it as a “hidden gem”.
He helped orchestrate its purchase by a trust that will run it as a tourist attraction in an act described by Alex Salmond, the First Minister of Scotland, as “the last minute save of the century”.
In common with almost everyone else, he had never set foot in the house and had never seen the furniture made by the master carpenter Thomas Chippendale.
The prince visited the Georgian time capsule for the first time in July last year, and returned for a second visit to declare the property open.
He described it as a rare example of a house where the majority of the original furniture was still in place, and said it would have been a “tragedy” if it had been sold privately.
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