Cliveden House

Cliveden House is a large country house and estate set on a terrace above the River Thames at Taplow in Buckinghamshire, approximately two miles north of Maidenhead. The current house, the third on the site, was designed by Sir Charles Barry and completed in 1851, and is surrounded by extensive formal gardens managed by the National Trust. The house became notorious in the early 1960s as the setting for the Profumo Affair, in which the garden's swimming pool and estate played a central role. The house is now operated as a luxury hotel.