Mr Van Hoogstraten's enormous mansion near Uckfield in East Sussex, called Hamilton Palace, after Bermuda's capital, it is neo-c

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Mr Van Hoogstraten's enormous mansion near Uckfield in East Sussex, called Hamilton Palace, after Bermuda's capital, it is neo-classical, with a copper dome. It is estimated to have cost £40m so far and is reportedly the most expensive private house built in Britain for a century. It is bigger than Buckingham Palace and has a 600ft art gallery and a mausoleum designed to hold Mr van Hoogstraten's body for 5,000 years. The mausoleum's walls are three feet thick because he said he wanted to "make the building last for ever".

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