The King of Bahrain has paid more than £120million to buy a Cotswolds estate from a Saudi prince who bought it for £11m in the 1990s, making him the new owner of its 18th-century country house, 167 acres of parkland, 39 cottages, and a Norman parish church.
King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, a friend of the British Royal Family, purchased Glympton Park in February from Prince Bandar bin Sultan, 72, a former Saudi intelligence chief and ambassador to the US.
The monarch, 71, who attended £34,245-a-year The Leys School in Cambridge in his youth, is now listed on Companies House as the new owner of the property alongside his Cambridge-educated son, Crown Prince Salman Bin Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa, 51.
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