Controversy also flared up recently after Belgium's dowager Queen Fabiola, the widow of Albert's brother, Baudouin, was accused of setting up a foundation to avoid the country's high inheritance taxes.

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The organisers were in a state of panic as the famously purse-lipped dowager Queen Mary was due to watch the match and Moran was accused of bringing vulgarity into tennis.

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The current building, which is believed still to have sections from Queen Anne's time, is used as the home of the Dowager Countess Grantham, played by Dame Maggie Smith in ITV's Downton.

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