If you’ve never received a coveted invitation to dine or even stay in one of the UK’s grand country houses, there’s now an easy way to get your foot — literally — in the door.

In recent years, estates, the majority still privately owned, have been throwing open the doors to their homes to one and all. Even royalty is at it — when The King was Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, he stayed in Restormel Manor near Lostwithiel, part of the Duchy estate and a holiday let available to the public that can accommodate up to 18 people.

In Wales, holidaymakers could, until recently, choose between two cottages that adjoined the royal couple’s Welsh home — the Llwynywermod estate in Myddfai, Wales, when His Majesty was not in residence. (In 2023, The King announced that he was giving up the lea

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