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Ayton Castle in Berwickshire is regarded as one of the finest baronial mansions and dates back to the 19th century ...

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The largest privately owned home in the US, Biltmore House was an "American chateau built on the scale of a European palace". It reveals much about the dreams of the US's one per cent.

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While Napoleon’s armies conquered Europe, a secret war was raging in the shadows—one fought not with cannons, but with bribes, forgeries, and the infiltration of the French justice system itself.

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