- 12-bedroom Sunninghill Park in Berkshire, which is only around 30 years old, is now under Heathrow flight path
- Dubbed SouthYork because it resembles Southfork, the ranch-house in TV’s Dallas, it was sold for £15m in 2007
- The Queen gave the mansion as a gift to the Duke of York and Sarah Ferguson after marriage in 1986
- Duchess of York lived there with daughters Beatrice and Eugenie following the divorce in 1996, but moved out in 2006
- Since then it has fallen into disrepair and the council gave permission for it to be demolished nine months ago
This dilapidated mansion is the last symbol of Prince Andrew’s failed marriage to Sarah Ferguson and has been left to decay seven years after the prince sold it for £15million.
To make matters worse the grand country house gifted by the Queen to her second son as a wedding gift is now under the Heathrow flight path where planes pass over it every few minutes.
12-bedroom Sunninghill Park in Berkshire, which is only around 30 years oFld, is a shadow of its former splendour and now has broken windows and boarded-up entrances.
Dubbed SouthYork because it resembles Southfork, the ranch-house in TV’s Dallas, the Duke of York sold it to Kazakh businessman Timur Kulibayev in 2007.
Designed by Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith, who also created a development on the Balmoral estate, ‘SouthYork’ was given to Andrew after his marriage in 1986.
The Duchess of York lived on there with daughters Beatrice and Eugenie following the divorce in 1996, but moved out in 2006 and joined Andrew at his home Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park.
It was sold a year later but has become an expensive ruin and worse it is now being bombarded by noisy Jumbo jets coming in to land at Heathrow.
Bosses at the airport recently switched the flight-path for incoming aircraft
Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson's crumbling marital home was not always a blot on the landscape
Source: the dailymail
