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“The house was gorgeous – about two hundred years old, with gabled windows and beautiful oak beams and it was surrounded by what had once been a magnificent garden with —I could hardly believe our luck— two hundred yards of river frontage,” wrote Sir Michael Caine in his autobiography, describing the Oxfordshire house that would become his home of 15 years.
In the summer of 1984, the actor and his wife, Shakira, were property hunting in the south of England, looking to relocate from Hollywood.
