Not content with proselytising and demonising architects, he wanted to put his backward-looking ideas into practice, and build an exemplar village. Fortunately for him, among his royal inheritances was a large amount of land around Dorchester, in one of his many Duchies. When the town of 25,000 wanted to expand they agreed to the Prince undertaking a development on his land, rather than the usual practice of the land being sold. The Prince becomes an active property developer.
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