A Room of One's Own: the Temple of Peace – inside a former PM's private sanctuary
At the heart of the Hawarden Estate in Flintshire is a magisterial mansion that was once the home of William Gladstone. The four-time prime minister spent many hours sequestered in his study, The Temple of Peace. Our writer joins his great-great-grandson, Charlie Gladstone, for a tour of this suspended space and discovers all is not in stasis …
- words
- Sophie Sims
- photography
- Finn Beales

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