Meghan Markle will spend her last night before her wedding to Prince Harry at a luxury Berkshire hotel with her mother.
Ms Markle and Doria Ragland will stay at the Cliveden House Hotel, which is about nine miles north of Windsor Castle, the venue for her big day. The prince will stay at the Dorchester Collection’s Coworth Park in Ascot, with his brother and best man, the Duke of Cambridge.
The details were released five days before Saturday’s wedding. Cliveden House, where Ms Markle will stay, is on the National Trust’s Cliveden Estate in Taplow.It has 34 bedroom and nine suites, including one named the Prince of Wales Suite – which costs from £1,535 a night. Its website describes how, for more than 350 years, the hotel has hosted “powerful personalities, debaucherous parties and scandalous affairs”.
Cliveden was linked to a 1960s political scandal – the Profumo affair – as it was where war minister John Profumo first met Christine Keeler and started a relationship. The privately owned stately home was built in 1666 by the 2nd Duke of Buckingham as a gift to his mistress. Former England footballer Steven Gerrard married Alex Curran at the hotel in 2007.
Meanwhile, Prince Harry will be staying 15 miles away at Coworth Park, located about seven miles from Windsor. It says it offers guests “an experience to refresh every sense within our welcoming oasis of calm”. A hotel spokeswoman said rates for the house were only available “on application” but hotel suites cost from £558 per night. Prince Harry and his brother regularly play on the hotel’s polo grounds – and Ms Markle was among the spectators last year.
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