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WELCOMING US TO THEIR MEDIEVAL CASTLE IN KENT ANN KAPLAN MULHOLLAND AND STEPHEN MULHOLLAND CANADIAN STARS PLAN REALITY SHOW TO REVEAL REVAMP OF THE HISTORIC HOME
HELLO! UK
|August 14, 2023
When hunting for a new home, many people might consider downsizing, but Ann Kaplan Mulholland and her husband Stephen Mulholland did quite the opposite
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“We weren’t going to buy a castle, but it happened,” says Ann as she invites hello! to join her behind the ornate doors of the pair’s new pad: the medieval Lympne Castle in Kent.
The Canadian TV star and entrepreneur, along with her world-renowned plastic surgeon husband, a l ready own ten residences in the world’s most exclusive places, from Hawaii to the British Virgin Islands, but even they didn’t expect to end up as king and queen of their own castle.
The couple, who starred in 2017 and were previously based in Las Vegas, had been looking for a bolthole in Britain after the youngest of their six children flew the nest.
“Our youngest son was 17 and went off to university. The next day, we said: ‘We’re out of here,’” says businesswoman, author and public speaker Ann. “When we started looking for flats in London, it got me curious. When an apartment is so expensive, I wondered what a house costs. Then it was: ‘I wonder what a castle costs?’”
The rest is history, and now Ann and Stephen, both 62, are delighted to call the £11m castle home.
Boasting turrets and fortified towers, a wood-panelled Great Hall and 20 bedrooms, the grade I-listed building is surrounded by beautiful stone-walled gardens, a vineyard, an orchard, stables and 139 acres of land.
This story is from the August 14, 2023 edition of HELLO! UK.
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