When the style set’s go-to florist Whitney Hawkings and her fashion designer husband Peter were ambitious young twenty-somethings, they used to stroll through London’s Chelsea and look wistfully at a beautiful Georgian townhouse, daydreaming that they would one day live in one just like it.

More than 20 years later, the couple have fulfilled that dream. But rather than finding a home similar to the one they admired so much, they are now the proud owners of the very same six-storey property, which overlooks the River Thames and Battersea Bridge.

"We walked past it so many times when we were young and just married, saying: 'Oh my god. What would it be like to live in that house?'" Whitney tells HELLO! in this exclusive interview. "When Peter and I sat down a couple of years ago to figur

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