Every effort was made to restore the house to the Annenbergs’ widely respected taste in furnishings and to ensure that the house will be suitable for future Ambassadors and their families. Winfield House Today

For the token price of an American dollar, Winfield House passed into official American ownership. Art London Diplomatic List, Honorary consulates in the UK, and Consular offices outside London reviewed and updated. The preconception that most homeless people are addicts is not true, said Williams: “Sixty per cent of our chaps are homeless because of relationship breakdowns.” Potential residents will be referred by Manchester city council or local homeless charities and then interviewed by Embassy. “The interview is really to ascertain whether you’re serious about change,” said Williams. “Believe it or not, about half the people we interview say, ‘I don’t want a job, I don’t ever want to work, I want to live in a council flat. That’s my ambition.’ And we go, ‘That’s great. But we are not that thing.’”We aim to position the UK as a responsible, reliable and effective international actor and partner, investing in the global relationships we need for the long term. Winfield House was also used as an Air Crew Reception Center, along with another in Abbey Lodge, for recruits being screened as prospective RAF pilots. Near misses from German bombs damaged the roof and moisture ruined the parquet floors and in 1944 a flying bomb exploded forty yards from the house, killing one cadet and injuring twenty others. Six weeks later Winfield House ceased to host the RAF unit – although it was later used as an American Officers’ Club. Winfield House is unique among American residences in that not only was it originally a gift to U.S. Government but it has since been showered with riches in the form of antique furniture, paintings, porcelain, china, glass, chandeliers, objets d’art – all the things that make it the beautiful house visitors see today. Visiting U.S. Presidents regularly stay at the residence watched over by portraits of their predecessors, some of whom served as both President of the United States and U.S. envoys to London. President George Bush met there with President Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1991 G-7 Summit. President Reagan was a frequent visitor. More recently, Senator George Mitchell hosted participants in the Northern Ireland Peace Process at Winfield House during his review of the Good Friday agreement in November 1999. Other American visitors have included astronauts, bankers, industrialists, students, congressmen, state governors and trade delegations, Supreme Court judges and U.S. government officials. Three documents updated: London Diplomatic List; Honorary consulates in the UK; and Consular offices outside London.

Updated attachments: London Diplomatic List, Honorary Consulates in the UK and Consular offices outside London. February update of the London Diplomatic list, Consulates in the UK outside London and the Honorary Consuls lists. When Ambassador Elliot Richardson arrived in 1975 his wife said, “the house was absolutely wonderful. . . a joy to move into” and when the Armstrongs moved in a year later, Ambassador Anne Armstrong said, “I ran through the house like a kid, I’d never seen anything so beautiful. It was like fairyland and in such beautiful shape.” The house stands behind fifteen-foot high iron gates on land that was once part of a “great forest, with wooded glades and lairs of wild beasts, deer both red and fallow, wild bulls and boars”. Half a century before the Norman Conquest the land belonged to the Abbey of Barking. Over the years, King Henry Vlll hunted there, Queen Elizabeth I used it for entertaining dignitaries and King James I offered it as collateral to raise money to go to war. King Charles II had the whole area “disparked” and toward the end of the 17th century Lord Arlington was given one of the first private leases.

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December update of the lists: London diplomatic, Honorary consulates in the UK and Consular offices outside London.

May update of the Foreign Heads of Mission Precedence list, London Diplomatic list, Consulates in the UK outside London and the Honorary Consuls lists. August update of the London Diplomatic list, Consulates in the UK outside London and the Honorary Consuls lists In 1939, with World War II about to erupt and her marriage to Count Reventlow ending, Barbara Hutton returned to America. World War IINovember update of the Foreign Heads of Mission Precedence list, London Diplomatic list, Consulates in the UK outside London and the Honorary Consuls lists. The development of Brasilia was a matter of keen interest in the architectural world, promising a chance to put new principles into practice. Each country recognised the opportunity to make a national statement in the contemporary idiom. For the new British embassy, the RIBA was invited to run a competition, encouraging a number of distinguished architectural practices to enter. Peter and Alison Smithson, who had just built The Economist building in London, were initially favoured, and produced a design for a long, thin building which would contain both embassy and residence. June update of the Foreign Heads of Mission Precedence list, London Diplomatic list, Consulates in the UK outside London and the Honorary Consuls lists May update of the London Diplomatic list, consulates in the UK outside London and the honorary consuls lists Added December update for Consulates outside London, London Diplomatic list and Honorary Consuls list.