The house and its 85-acre park overlooking the Thames then regularly welcomed the Kings and Queens from Windsor Castle as the home of Lord Boston from 1764.

Badly damaged by fire in 1795, a new house was completed in 1868 by James Knowles, unusually modelled on the Italian villa style but with a domed hall rather than an open courtyard.

In the 1950s, Hedsor House was leased by the US Air Force as a Cold War military spy base.

In September 2008, Mark Ronson held his 33rd birthday at Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s pub The Punch Bowl,[7][8][9] Mayfair, London, and Hedsor House,[10][11] including Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Daisy Lowe, Nick Grimshaw, and The Kaiser Chiefs.

It featured Tom Hardy in the 2015 film Legend and 2016 as the mansion to which George Clooney is taken when kidnapped in a Nespresso advert.

It was also the location of Quartet,[13][14] a 2012 comedy drama film directed by Dustin Hoffman, based on the play by Ronald Harwood.

The film stars Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Pauline Collins and Billy Connolly.