Waddesdon Manor

Waddesdon Manor is a grand country house situated in parkland and formal gardens near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild bought the Waddesdon estate in 1874 from the Duke of Marlborough with money inherited from his father. The estate passed to his sister Alice and then to her French great nephew James de Rothschild. James bequeathed Waddesdon to the National Trust in 1957 but the property is managed by the Rothschild Foundation.