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Anthea Turner and Grant Bovey explain how they lost £130m in the blink of an eye

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This is one milestone that OK! and Hello! won't be vying to cover.

There is a removal van in the driveway of Anthea Turner's Surrey mansion, and the lady of the house has spent all week crunching through the gravel with boxes and bubblewrap.

On Tuesday, the estate agent will relieve Anthea and her husband Grant Bovey of the keys to their sumptuous home, which has featured in so many glossy spreads.

It will be Goodbye! to all this: to the swimming pool, the stables, the wine cellar, the home cinema.

No more will Anthea be able to pad, as she is doing today, over the Italian limestone flooring of the orangery and out on to the terrace to admire the view.

The house comes with 100 acres of Surrey's finest countryside, and has its own polo field to boot.

Who in their right mind would be in a hurry to leave all this? Personally, I'd be chaining myself to the orangery if it were mine, but, as Grant puts it, a house of this scale is 'no longer appropriate'.

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4 July 2009

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