The Mail tells us that bachelor-to-be Michael Gove is moving into the grace-and-favour flat at 1 Carlton Gardens normally offered to a Foreign Secretary, at the behest of thrice-married PM Boris Johnson.
The 1830 property, now valued at around £25 million, is leased by the Foreign Office from the Crown Estate, which looks after the Queen's properties. It was designed by architect John Nash, and was once a temporary shelter for Louis Napoleon, later Emperor Napoleon III of France.
Not all Foreign Secretaries stayed overnight, but used the grand rooms for meetings, entertaining and photo-opportunities Below, five film stars in London for the Unitalia Film Week in 1954, making a fuss of Sir Anthony Eden's pet pooch, "Victoria" - Lydia Alfonsi, Irene Genna, Maria Canale, S. Pallavicini and Marisa Belli. Will Gove, hitherto flitting between rooms in his constituency, and hotels in Aberdeen and Glasgow, attract similar convivial gatherings ?
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