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Farewell to Xanadu for Coleridge?

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20060216
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Byline: RICHARD KAY

WHILE Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan may have decreed 'a stately pleasure dome' in Xanadu, the poet's descendants are reluctantlyputting their own ancestral paradise up for sale, as they are struggling to afford its upkeep.

The fifth Lord Coleridge, known to his pals as Bill, currently resides in The Chanter's House - the magnificent 20-bedroomed Devon residence where his famous ancestor was born in 1772 - with his statuesque daughter Tania.

But now the affable Old Etonian has told friends he is being forced to sell up to provide for Tania ...

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