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Ascot place is owned by Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan and is situated in Windlesham in Berkshire with the surmised value of £60 million. Ascot Place was bought by Zayed bin Sultan al- Nahyan the ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates for £18 million in 1989. He bought it from the heir of Mercedes-Benz fortune Mick Flick.
The Grade II listed 18th century mansion is only 15 minutes from Heathrow airport and is in 400 acres of parkland that used to belong to the royal forest around Windsor Castle.
This is just one of the many homes of Sheik Zayed, he also has many more around the world. In which he visits by flying himself, his eight wives and 19 sons in a gold-embossed jumbo jet
Ascot Place is an 18th-century mansion, set in 400 acres (1.6 km2) of parkland between Cranbourne, North Ascot and Winkfield in the English county of Berkshire.
It is located close to Windsor Great Park and the Berkshire Polo Club. The mansion itself and various statues and other structures in its garden are Grade II listed, whilst a grotto to the south of house and at west end of lake is Grade I listed.
Records of Ascot Place date back to 1339, with owners including baked beans tycoon H.J. "Jack" Heinz II, William Lidderdale, Governor of the Bank of England, and Sir Harry Livesey.
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Victoria County History record:
ASCOT (Achecote, xiii cent.) is returned with Winkfield as held by the abbey of Abingdon in 1316. This seems unsupported by further evidence, and it is certain that a part of Ascot at least belonged to Windsor, and in the 14th century formed a bailiwick in the forest rented from the Crown as fee farm by the Batayle family. Richard Batayle died seised of it in 1302 and was succeeded by his son Henry, who died about 1319. Possibly his heir was a minor, for the bailiwick was granted for life to Edmund de Alegate, though in 1313 it was said to be held in fee to Henry and his heirs. The Batayles remained in possession of property in Ascot till the 17th century, when Agnes the daughter and heir of the last Henry Batayle married Francis Broughton, against whom a bill was brought in 1614 in the Court of the Exchequer concerning lands in Winkfield held by him but claimed by the Crown. Agnes died in 1622 seised of the manor of Ascot, which was then said to be held of the lord of Winkfield; she left as her heir a son Francis. John Broughton, who was holding in 1718, was probably his grandson. This John conveyed the manor in 1722 to Robert Foster, and upon the death of the latter it was sold to Andrew Lindegreen, from whose executors Daniel Agace purchased it in 1787. He was holding in 1813, ) and his descendant, Mr. Charles Agace Ferard, is the present lord of the manor.