A 500-year-old English manor that King Henry VIII gave to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, as part of their annulment agreement is now on the market for $4.76 million.
Mansion Global reported that Broughton Hall, located roughly a half-hour’s drive from Oxford, is a 4.6-acre property with a three-floor, nine-bedroom residence that includes some original features from the Tudor era including grand fireplaces, sash windows and flagstone floors, and a freestanding copper bathtub. The property also includes tennis courts and gardens along with a “Queen’s Walk” that leads to a stone pavilion named from the German-born queen.
Karen Todner, a human rights lawyer, and her partner, Ian Jobling, a criminal barrister, acquired the property in the early 2000s after spotting it in the Saturday Telegraph’s “Home of the Week” feature, but she stated the property is “too big for us now that the children have moved out, so we are looking to downsize within the area, but it’s been a wonderful house for our family.”
Henry and Anne’s marriage only lasted from January through July 1540. While historians have debated why the union failed, the dissolution of the marriage was amicable and Henry offered his ex-wife a generous settlement that included several properties along with Broughton Hall.
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