Now Her Majesty lets out a royal home on Airbnb
KNOWN and cheerful as a cheap way for holidaymakers to stay in enviable locations, Airbnb has now won the royal seal of approval.
I can reveal that the Queen is advertising a property on her private Sandringham estate for short-term lets on the American home rentals website.
‘I never thought I could get a place next to the royals,’ says one astonished Airbnb user. Courtiers are already joking that the property should be known as ‘Heirbnb’.
The property on the website was formerly the home of the Queen’s the royals Norfolk spend head estate, Christmas. gardener where The the at house art works includes owned furniture by and the Royal Family.
Airbnb describes it as a ‘charming hideaway, owned by HM The Queen, nestled within the heart of her muchloved Sandringham Estate country retreat and the closest estate property to Sandringham House itself’.
It adds: ‘The gardens are a sheer delight and provide a superb setting for this idyllic house.
‘ Garden House offers charming and relaxed accommodation for eight guests set over two floors. Furnished eclectically from the Royal Collection, all the furniture and pictures were once housed in a royal residence.’
Guests can enjoy plenty of outdoor space. ‘As well as the formal walled garden with its wonderfully stocked beds and borders in which the property sits, there is a more informal garden where you can relax in and children and dogs are safe to run and play.’
And it won’t cost a king’s ransom. Prices vary, but the house can be rented for £354 per night next February, for a minimum of three nights.