Watch as Wentworth Woodhouse's 606ft facade is lit up in stunning red, white and blue colours for VE Day
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The Grade I-listed Georgian mansion in Rotherham has been lit up in red, white and blue – the colours of the British flag – to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe.
The property’s Palladian east front, which stretches for more than 606 feet and is the longest facade of any English country house, was illuminated by Keith Harper, who runs Event Light & Sound in Wakefield and often works on weddings at the site.
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Hide AdWentworth Woodhouse is now owned by a preservation trust and is being restored for the nation, in the hope £130 million can be raised over 25 years to fund repairs.
Darkest Hour, released in 2018, starred Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill and depicts the Prime Minister's first weeks in office in 1940 as he faced the looming threat of a Nazi invasion in Britain. The film is being shown on BBC One on Saturday, May 9, at 7.30pm.
The mansion's frontage is wider than Buckingham Palace’s – even Queen Victoria, who stayed at Wentworth while still a princess in 1835, wrote that it was an ‘immense house’.
It has more than 300 rooms, its corridors cover five miles and it is reputed to have over 1,000 windows.
