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Touring Haddon Hall in Derbyshire, England, UK

🔊🔛 When I started my tour of @HaddonHall, it looked familiar. Sure it’s been used in films and TV, including three adaptations of “Jane Eyre,” numerous BBC productions, and 2005's “Pride and Prejudice” starring Keira Knightley, but then it was revealed that I’d seen this place so many times in repeated viewings of the timeless fairy tale comedy, “The Princess Bride,” starring Cary Elwes and Robin Wright (with Mandy Patankin, Billy Crystal, and Andre the Giant.) “This was Prince Humperdink’s castle!” said our enthusiastic guide Olwyn. Our visit coincided with a timely exhibition about magic, from charms to wands, and the floating candles illuminating each room was nice visual touch. However, our tour with Olwyn was mostly a film tourism-focused tour, as she told BTS stories of policing young film crew who almost drilled holes in tapestries and painted over priceless artifacts. She pointed out the short cabinet door in “Hollow Crown” that Benedict Cumberbatch stood behind because it was faked as a room door, the stairwell Keira Knightley ran down to hide behind a curtain in “#PrideAndPrejudice,” and the hall that Damien Lewis danced in, playing Henry VIII in “Wolf Hall.” Of course the courtyard was famously in “#ThePrincessBride,” particularly in the scene in which Princess Buttercup is booed by an old hag in a dream sequence about her wedding to Prince Humperdink. Nearby, the castle walls where scaled by Cary Elwes with the help of his friends. Because Haddon Hall is a technically a manor house and not a castle in real life, it was never seen as a place to be conquered, which contributes to why it’s so perfectly intact as it’s endured for over 900 years. — Nerding out with fellow Princess Bride fans, #asYouWish, at Haddon Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire, #England, #UK. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Fun Fact: The long tabletop in the hall was considered a “board” because it was simply a board that was flipped over to clean—by dogs licking it, in those unsanitary medieval times. “Board” has stuck in modern English language, from “board games” to “board room.” In fact, the main chair at the head of the table was for the “chairman,” as in “chairman of the board.” #theglobaltripuk #theglobaltrippeakdistrict