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Article: Loch, stock and barrel; With three homes and a fourth child on the way, property was not on Vanessa Branson's mind. But the chance to own a Scottish island was too good to miss RICH CITY.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2005
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Byline: VANESSA BRANSON
THE first time my husband mentioned buying an island off the west cost of Scotland, my reaction was: "Don't be ridiculous." We were about to have our fourth child and I could barely cope as it was, but Robert was determined.
From that moment, the dream of owning an island became his dreadful secret.
I would discover copies of Country Life hidden under the car seat, pages turned down on the corners of outrageously impractical properties. Massive Victorian piles good as nothing more than locations for Harry Potter films, or windswept rocky outcrops with names I had only heard of from the shipping forecast. Then there were ...
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