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Evening Standard
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Ruth Bloomfield

Leaving London: This family swapped a basement flat in Highgate for a new-build townhouse near Cambridge

Lucy Egerton and Marcus Rees-Roberts with their daughters Leila and Mina

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A real lockdown low-point for Lucy Egerton came when she needed to join a Zoom meeting — and found herself banished to the bathroom for privacy.

Egerton and her husband Marcus Rees-Roberts were both trying to work from their two-bed basement flat in north London which they shared with their daughter, Mina, now two, and space was at a premium.

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