An Antiquity from Stockholm, Sweden
The llon Estate
An antiquity from
the early1800's in Stockholm, Sweden
Front view of the llon Estate in Stockholm, Sweden which was built around the early 1800's by the Hamilton family. Count and Countess Gunila
Hamilton
In December of 1960 I was a guest at this estate for two weeks and met Winston Churchill for the first and only time. He died a couple of years later. I was also privileged to play bridge with him the evening he was the guest of honor to a party of 100+ guests.
Sometime in the mid 1920's my mom was also a guest here at this estate for the Christmas holidays as well. Countess Gunila Hamilton II, was my mom's roommate at the time in a Paris finishing school. When I was young mom used to wax poetically about this property. I thought the stories were a figment of her imagination.
Aerial view of the llon Estate in Stockholm, Sweden which was built around the early 1800's by the Hamilton family. Count and Countess Gunila
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How about that for a spread?
they knew how to live back then, no?
This is utterly beautiful! How very neat that you got to go there, AND meet Winston Churchill! (I have all his books, downstairs...)
I've always wanted to go to Sweden... Maybe some day!
What abeautifulmanner house. And meeting Churchill must have been amazing! What anincrediblepiece of personal history. Bet you wished you owned the place!
As long as I don't have to clean it...
PS: About the servants!
Gunila apologized that many of the 50+ servants were on holidays. But, for Xmas dinner there was a servant for every guest. The whole 2 weeks were something like a fairy tale which has never gone away in my mind. Where they all came from I didn't ask, but they were there!
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