HOUSE COST A FORTUNE
SPENT ONE NIGHT IN IT j j INDIAN PRINCE TO SELL MANSION | (.By Air Mail—Special Correspondent! LONDON, 29th October. ! Because of the English climate an InJ dian prince is to sell a house in Surrey on which he. spent a fortune. The priuj cess, his wife, would stop only one night ! j England was too cold for her, even in The mansion is Snowdenham Hall, in I Ijiaanlev, Surrey. It belongs to the Nawab ! Sahib Bahadur of Rampur, one of the five j I wealthiest ruling princes in India. The | Prince spent hundreds of pounds on their i household central heating system in the ' hope that bis wife would feel comfort- j | able in the lofty English rooms. He spent ' j more than Tb.COO, on their seven state | bathrooms, and altogether, £30,000 on de- ! I corations. Now he wants to sell the house ! ! at less than half of what it has cost him. i ! The Prince hopes to sell it as it stands, j l complete with furniture. ' The Prince's shaving chair stands bo- j fore a mirror in his dressing room. There • ! Begum's boudoir, which has a view for i | ten miles. j Upstairs in the nursery suite there are English baby chairs and cots which three j little Indian princes never used. The Prince himself has spent only 28 j days of his 4 years tenancy in the man- j He spent months in supervising plans j for making Snowdenham one of the show , houses of England.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 November 1938, Page 5
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