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Badminton House is a large country house in Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire is a Counties of England in South West England England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
, and has been the principal seat of the Dukes of Beaufort since the late 17th century. The architect William Kent
William Kent

William Kent was an eminent England architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th century....
 renovated and extended the house in the Palladian style in the early 18th century, but many earlier elements remain.






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Badminton House is a large country house in Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire is a Counties of England in South West England England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
, and has been the principal seat of the Dukes of Beaufort since the late 17th century. The architect William Kent
William Kent

William Kent was an eminent England architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th century....
 renovated and extended the house in the Palladian style in the early 18th century, but many earlier elements remain. The sport of Badminton
Badminton

Badminton is a List of sports#Racquet sports played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net....
 was re-introduced from India and popularised at the house, hence the sport's name.

Queen Mary
Mary of Teck

Mary of Teck was the queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom, Emperor of India. Before her husband's accession, she was successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall and Princess of Wales....
 stayed at Badminton House for much of the Second World War. Her staff occupied most of the building, to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort's inconvenience.

In the 21st century Badminton House is best known for the annual Badminton Horse Trials
Badminton Horse Trials

The Badminton Horse Trials is a eventing, one of only six annual four star, Concours Complet International, events as classified by the FEI....
.

Badminton House is also very strongly associated with fox hunting
Fox hunting

Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase, and sometimes killing of a fox, traditionally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds, and a group of followers led by a master of foxhounds, who follow the hounds on foot or on horseback....
. Successive Dukes of Beaufort have been masters of the Beaufort Hunt
Duke of Beaufort's Hunt

The Duke of Beaufort's Hunt is one of the oldest and largest of the fox hunting packs in England. It was founded by the Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort in 1682 and continues under the auspices of this family....
, which is probably one of the two most famous hunts in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 alongside the Quorn Hunt.

Badminton was open to the public at one time, but is not at present (as of 2008).

It was the location for some scenes of the film The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day (film)

The Remains of the Day is a Merchant Ivory Productions adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was directed by James Ivory , produced by Ismail Merchant, and starred Anthony Hopkins as Stevens and Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton, with James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Hugh Grant, and Ben Chaplin....
.

See also

  • Badminton Horse Trials
    Badminton Horse Trials

    The Badminton Horse Trials is a eventing, one of only six annual four star, Concours Complet International, events as classified by the FEI....
  • Badminton Library
    Badminton Library

    The Badminton Library, called in full The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, was a sporting and publishing project conceived and founded by Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort ....


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