Sudeley is owned by the Dent-Brocklehurst family: Lady Ashcombe and her
children Henry and Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst. Since 1970 it has been open to
the public but, like most stately homes, faces crippling maintenance and
upkeep bills. Three years ago it was said to be losing £100,000 a year. The
trustees had already sold a magnificent Poussin landscape for £16 million in
1997, now in the J Paul Getty Museum in California, and in 2008 sold J M W
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