Queen Camilla has owned a countryside mansion in Lacock village in Wiltshire since 1995 and to this day uses the residence to spend quality time with her family, away from the public eye. Recently, King Charles averted a potential security crisis by purchasing the house next door to his wife in the rural haven, amid fears that it could turn into a raucous wedding venue. Mail Online has reported that the King recently purchased The Old Mill, next door to Camilla’s Ray Mill House, with private funds for £3million after a proposal to sell the property and turn it into a wedding venue and short-term holiday rental was causing the Queen “great anxiety”.
The tiny medieval market village of Lacock is home to merely 1,000 people, however many of them happen to be famous personalities. Apart from Queen Consort Camilla, Lacock Village was previously the residence of famous YouTuber Zoella (Zoe) Sugg and her brother – Strictly Come Dancing 2018’s runner-up Joe Sugg. Nick Mason and Marco Pierre White Jr both live a few minutes around the corner in Corsham.
The scenic village is almost owned entirely by the National Trust and tends to attract throngs of visitors to its essentially unspoiled locales, with its central grid of four streets said to look much like they did two centuries ago. With every inch of this Wiltshire village rooted in the past – Lacock is a beautiful lesson in history wrapped in gorgeous views. One of the stop-worthy locations in the village includes the o.
