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Lord Stanhope was apparently impressed by the young Charles, Prince of Wales, and hoped that he would reside at Chevening.
In 1974, the Prince accepted the prospect of living on the estate.
According to his biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby ( for whom Prince Charles himself arranged access to unpublished royal diaries and family correspondence ), at that time he was contemplating an eventual marriage to Hon.
Amanda Knatchbull, granddaughter of his great-uncle the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma: " n 1974, following his correspondence with Mountbatten on the subject, the Prince had tentatively raised the question of marriage to Amanda with her mother ( and his godmother ) Patricia Brabourne.
She was sympathetic, but counselled against raising the issue with her daughter, who had yet to celebrate her seventeenth birthday.
" Amanda's paternal great-aunt had been Lady Eileen Browne, daughter of the 6th Marquess of Sligo, whose barren marriage to the last Earl Stanhope ( who had no other near relations ) led to Chevening's being placed at the disposal of the Royal Family.
If Amanda were to become Princess of Wales, the Prince's acceptance of Chevening would make some familial sense.

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