{"id":666266,"date":"2026-06-30T15:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666266\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:29:16","slug":"laurence-llewelyn-bowen-giving-away-3m-cotswolds-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666266\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen giving away \u00a33m Cotswolds estate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The TV presenter and design expert has chosen to hand over the estate to his sons-in-law after the experience.\n<\/p>\n

\n Mr Llewelyn-Bowen has since made the choice to no longer be in charge of the Cotswolds house, which he lives in with his wife, Jackie.\n<\/p>\n

\n His daughter, 27-year-old Hermione, and her partner also live at the home while his other daughter, 30-year-old Cecile, lives nearby with her husband and two children.\n<\/p>\n

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\n \"LaurenceLaurence Llewelyn-Bowen. (Image: Alamy \/ PA)\n<\/p>\n

\n The 61-year-old recently spoke to GloucestershireLive<\/a> ahead of his Drawn to Adorn art tour with Buckingham Fine Art.\n<\/p>\n

\n Mr Llewelyn-Bowen said his eldest daughter, a novelist, had been \u201crather appalled\u201d by the family\u2019s shop in Siddington and decided to get involved.\n<\/p>\n

\n He explained that the family has long had a flagship store in Cirencester, which his daughter has now taken on and transformed.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThat\u2019s absolutely flying now; it\u2019s full of incredible odd stuff,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n

\n Turning to the way they manage the family home, Laurence said he was determined not to be the \u201cguy who pays for everything\u201d while everyone else feels like lodgers.\n<\/p>\n

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\n \"TheThe home in the Cotswolds.\n<\/p>\n

\n Instead, he revealed that all three households have a stake in the property.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWhat we have done with all three households is we all own it, which I thought was a really important moment,\u201d he shared.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cLogistically, it means that we\u2019re all responsible for it, which makes a lot of sense.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n He added that if something goes wrong at the estate, \u201cwe all have to step in for it\u201d, stressing that his daughters and their partners are not simply staying there as guests.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt\u2019s their home alongside us; we all have a mutual relationship, and I think that\u2019s very important,\u201d said the Changing Rooms star.\n<\/p>\n

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\n Mr Llewelyn-Bowen admitted some people have questioned the unusual arrangement, but insisted he believes it is the more \u201csensible\u201d approach.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI think it\u2019s a much more sensible way of doing it; it means you\u2019ve got to trust who you\u2019re living with and you\u2019ve got to be really committed to that, but surely that\u2019s what families should be about; they should be about trust and commitment,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n

\n Emphasising that his daughters are just as involved in owning the estate as their husbands, he said he sees his sons-in-law as part of the core family.\n<\/p>\n

\n Mr Llewelyn-Bowen said: “Absolutely, not that I would have a problem with that at all, I\u2019m very fond of my son-in-laws; they are my sons; they are the fathers of my grandchildren, and they\u2019ve got very good taste to love and adore my daughters, so, you know, absolutely.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The TV presenter and design expert has chosen to hand over the estate to his sons-in-law after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-666266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}