When Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi snapped up Kitesbridge Farm, a 43–acre farmstead in the heart of the Cotswolds, the case appeared to have been made that they were in it for the long run.
After all, they had paid £15million for the home, near Witney in Oxfordshire – £2.5million more than the asking price – and seemed set on settling down in England in order to live life beyond the reaches of Donald Trump's America.
The farm has a lot to offer: a sweeping kitchen, bespoke solid wood furniture, dressing rooms, marble–clad en suites, a two–bed guest cottage, indoor swimming pool, helipad and a five–car garage inside a converted granary barn.
'We’re just not used to seeing this kind of beauty,' she told broadcaster Richard Bacon during an event in Cheltenham in July.
'The villages and the towns and the architecture – everything you see is charming, and it’s just a simpler way of life. I just love it here.'
