Father of Prince William and Kate’s pal Rose Cholmondeley compares his stay at ‘paradise’ country hotel to a spell in jail
What could be more enchanting than a stay at Slebech Park, Pembrokeshire, whose Grade II listed coaching inn hotel was described by a visitor last month as ‘a slice of paradise’?
Well, quite a lot actually, says Tim Hanbury, a friend of the Duke of Beaufort since their Eton days.
‘I wouldn’t recommend Slepeck 100 percent [sic] Park country house hotel for a romantic stay,’
Former model Rose Hanbury, a friend of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and who is married to the Marquess of Cholmondeley
Tim and Emma Hanbury with their daughters Rose (right) and Marina (left) at the wedding of Laura Parker Bowles and Harry Lopes in 2006
Slebech Park, Pembrokeshire, whose Grade II listed coaching inn hotel was described as ‘a slice of paradise’ by a visitor last month but failed to impress Tim Hanbury
Drone footage of the hotel that Hanbury and his wife Emma compared to a prison on social media
Announcing this on social media, Hanbury treats friends to a series of snaps of Slebech, which are in stark contrast to the drone footage on the hotel’s website.
His wife Emma, whom Hanbury gives the playful alias “Wemdog,” compared her stay, he adds, to “being in a prison.”
The hotel, which has received both praise and criticism, declined to comment. But one might take comfort in knowing that the Hanburys are not like other guys.
Their eldest daughter, Marina, is the third wife of Ned Lambton, Earl of Durham, owner of Lambton Castle and Biddick Hall in County Durham and the dazzling Villa Cetinale in Tuscany.
Their youngest daughter, former model Rose Hanbury, a friend of the Prince and Princess of Wales, is married to the Marquess of Cholmondeley, who settles for the magnificent Houghton Hall in Norfolk and Cholmondeley Castle in Cheshire.