The owner of the manor house accommodating JD Vance in Oxfordshire has apologised to neighbours for bringing a “circus” to their hamlet.
The US vice-president is to stay in the 18th-century, Grade-II listed house after visiting David Lammy at Chevening , the Foreign Secretary’s official country residence in Kent.
Secret Service agents have been preparing the area around Charlbury , a village with 3,000 residents, for Mr Vance’s arrival, putting in place checkpoints, installing new technology and cutting a makeshift helipad into a field.
And the owner of the home where the vice-president is staying apologised to her community about the preparations and heightened public attention.
In a message seen by The Telegraph, Pippa Hornby, who bought the house with her husband Johnny in 201