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The Marquess of Bath and his Strictly Star wife, Emma Weymouth, buy a London house that was Churchill’s last home from a divorcee with a Nazi relative for £18.5 million.
- The Marquess of Bath and his wife bought a west London house for £18.5 million
- The Grade II listed house was where Winston Churchill breathed his last in 1965
- It was also owned by a divorcee who married into a family with a Nazi relative.
The Marquess of Bath and his wife, Strictly star Emma Weymouth, bought a west London property where Winston Churchill once lived for £18.5m.
The Grade II listed home was bought from a divorced billionaire whose Nazi-supporting grandfather of her ex-husband was convicted at the Nuremberg trials.
Churchill lived there on and off from 1945 until his death, inside his bedroom, in 1965 at the age of 90 after suffering a stroke.
The large house was last put on the market in 2016 for £28 million after undergoing extensive renovations.
It has seven bedrooms, four bathrooms and a living room with double height ceilings.
The Marquess of Bath, Ceawlin Thynn, and his wife Emma Weymouth, pictured at the 10th Annual Filmmakers Dinner in France 2019. The couple bought a west London property where Winston Churchill once lived for £18.5 million sterling pounds.
Until Ceawlin Thynn and Emma Weymouth acquired the property, it was owned by Donatella Flick, who married the grandson of Nazi sympathizer Friedrich Flick.
Flick, a leading supporter of the Nazis, was part of the Circle of Friends, a group of industrialists created to create links between business and the Third Reich. He was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Donatella bought the house for £2.5 million in 1996. She has defended Friedrich on the grounds that his imprisonment for crimes against humanity was a miscarriage of justice.
Monogrammed cushions adorned black sofas, while on the staircase was a bust of Wilhelm Furtwangler, the German conductor who fought accusations that he was a Nazi sympathizer.
He turned the bedroom where Churchill died into a living room dominated by a black and white color scheme.
“Very simple, very strict, a bit harsh,” he said. ‘This is how I am.’
In the place where Churchill’s bed had been, he placed a coffee table piled high with glossy books and tall white candles.
Monogrammed cushions adorned black sofas, while on the staircase was a bust of Wilhelm Furtwangler, the German conductor who fought accusations that he was a Nazi sympathizer.
Land Registry documents confirm that the house was purchased by Longleat Estate Holdings Ltd.