Ascot Place is an 18th-century mansion on the edge of

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, set in of parkland between Cranbourne,

North Ascot North Ascot is an area of Bracknell Forest in the county of Berkshire in England, with a few acres straddling the town of Ascot in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. It lies north of the A329 and west of the A332, adjoining the Ascot Ra ...

and

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in the

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county of

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. It is located close to

and Ascot Racecourse. The mansion itself and various

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s and other structures in its garden are

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, whilst a grotto to the south of house and at west end of lake is

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. Records of Ascot Place date back to 1339, with owners including baked beans tycoon H.J. "Jack" Heinz II. In 1989

Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan ( ar,  خليفة بن زايد بن سلطان آل نهيان‎; 7 September 1948 – 13 May 2022) was the second president of the United Arab Emirates and the ruler of Abu Dhabi, serving from ...

, the emir of

Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi (, ; ar, أَبُو ظَبْيٍ ' ) is the capital and second-most populous city (after Dubai) of the United Arab Emirates. It is also the capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the centre of the Abu Dhabi Metropolitan Area. ...

, and one of the richest

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in the world worth hundreds of billions bought the mansion for a then record sum of £18million. It has remained with the Sheikh ever since.

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