Queen Camilla has owned a countryside mansion in Lacock village in Wiltshire since 1995 and to this day uses the residence to spend quality time with her family, away from the public eye. Recently, King Charles averted a potential security crisis by purchasing the house next door to his wife in the rural haven, amid fears that it could turn into a raucous wedding venue.

Mail Online has reported that the King recently purchased The Old Mill, next door to Camilla’s Ray Mill House, with private funds for £3million after a proposal to sell the property and turn it into a wedding venue and short-term holiday rental was causing the Queen “great anxiety”.

The tiny medieval market village of Lacock is home to merely 1,000 people, however many of them happen to be famous personalities.

Apart from Queen Consort Camilla, Lacock Village was previously the residence of famous YouTuber Zoella (Zoe) Sugg and her brother – Strictly Come Dancing 2018’s runner-up Joe Sugg. Nick Mason and Marco Pierre White Jr both live a few minutes around the corner in Corsham.

The scenic village is almost owned entirely by the National Trust and tends to attract throngs of visitors to its essentially unspoiled locales, with its central grid of four streets said to look much like they did two centuries ago.

With every inch of this Wiltshire village rooted in the past – Lacock is a beautiful lesson in history wrapped in gorgeous views.

One of the stop-worthy locations in the village includes the old shop at 2 High Street which was used as a coffee tavern in the late 19th century and subsequently became a stationers after World War I, eventually incorporating the Post Office in 1966. After shuttering in the early 1980s, the shop’s last resident, Miss Butler, arranged the window in the style of early 20th-century displays and it has remained untouched ever since.

Being chosen as the set of a number of Harry Potter movies, Lacock village has seen its fair share of fame. Downtown Abbey, Wolf Hall, the BBC’s 1995 production of Pride and Prejudice and The Other Boleyn Girl have further cemented the medieval village’s brush with fame.

William Henry Fox Talbot made great strides in photography while residing in Lacock Abbey, with the pioneering scientist and inventor creating the earliest-surviving photographic negative in 1835. He also built the greenhouses in the Botanic Garden in Lacock Abbey.

Several other gardens like the Woodland Garden, The Orchard, and The Rose Garden add to the picturesque charm of Lacock village.

Lacock is a quintessential English village which has seen little change in the past 200 years, featuring streets that are lined with timber-framed houses and independent shops. Medieval Lacock was mostly dominated by the dense Melksham Forest, which stretched for 33 miles from the south to the east and came right up to the village.

Apart from the irregular line of Church Street (where settlement began) the rest of Lacock is a medieval planned town, intentionally arranged in a grid pattern, which is still visible in the layout of the other streets even today.