Donald Trump is determined to ensure that a corner of one of London’s biggest parks remains for ever America.
The 99-year Crown Estate lease on Winfield House, the Regent’s Park residence of the US ambassador, is due to expire in 2053 and well-placed sources said the president is manoeuvring to extend it.
The neo-Georgian mansion is unlikely to reach the open market, but property experts believe it could comfortably exceed the highest sale price on record for a house in London.
Earlier this year a Hong Kong billionaire, Cheung Chung-kiu, paid £210m for a 45-room mansion in Knightsbridge. Winfield House boasts only 35 rooms, but its 12½-acre garden is the second largest in London after Buckingham Palace and it comes with a star-studded history of
