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The first stately museum of England

HAREWOOD HOUSE, home to the Seventh Earl of Harewood, a cousin of the Queen, will become the first stately home in Britain to win designated museum status tomorrow.

The announcement will be made by Chris Smith, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, as a tribute to the unfailing good taste shown by successive generations of the Harewood family, who have maintained the home.

Harewood has been accorded designated museum status by the Museums and Galleries Commission, recognising it as a centre of excellence and putting it in the premier league of museums in the country.

The house, built west of Leeds in 1759, was designed by John Carr and Robert Adam, is set in gardens created by ...

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