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Article: Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry dies.
- Article from:
- Northants Evening Telegraph (Kettering, England)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2007
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THE Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry has died at the age of 83.
He was Britain's largest private landowner, a cousin of the Queen and a direct descendant of Charles 11.
Among the land and property he owned was Boughton House, near Kettering, which has been described as "The English Versailles".
Boughton was originally a monastic building but Sir Edward Montagu, Lord Chief Justice to King Henry VIII, bought it in 1528 just prior to the Dissolution of the Monasteries and began to convert it into a mansion.
Most of the present building is the work of Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, a former English ambassador to France, and Boughton ...