![]() ![]() ![]() She’s spirited away on a boat across Black Park Lake, in Black Park Country Park on Black Park Road between Slough and Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire. The Princess Bride location: climbing the ‘Cliffs of Insanity’: Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland | Photograph: Cliffs of Moherīefore the wedding, Buttercup is abducted by the sly Vizzini ( Wallace Shawn), and his accomplices, swordsman Inigo Montoya ( Mandy Patinkin) and Fezzig ( Andre The Giant), in order to ignite a war between Florin and its rival kingdom, Guilder. ![]() It’s also featured in Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth, with Cate Blanchett as the Virgin Queen, Trevor Nunn’s Lady Jane, with Helena Bonham-Carter, Joe Wright’s 2005 version of Pride And Prejudice, and historical romance The Other Boleyn Girl. Haddon Hall has long been a screen favourite, appearing as ‘Thornfield’ in both the 2011 Jane Eyre with Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender, and the 1996 version directed by Franco Zeffirelli. The house is open for visits and tours from April to October (you’ll need to check ahead for the days and opening hours). Haddon Hall was built, and developed, from the 12th to the early 17th Centuries, before lying dormant for over two hundred years until the being restored in the 1920s by the Duke and Duchess of Rutland. The Prince’s chamber is the 14th Century wood-panelled Banqueting Hall. If you’ve visited Haddon, you might notice that the production added an extra tower behind him to give a more imposing appearance. It’s in the house’s Lower Courtyard that Humperdinck announces their upcoming betrothal. The Prince’s kingdom of ‘Florin’ is Haddon Hall, just south of Bakewell, Derbyshire, possibly the country’s finest fortified Medieval manor house. When her first love, the farm boy Westley ( Cary Elwes), disappears, the beautiful Buttercup ( Robin Wright Penn) dutifully agrees to marry smarmy Prince Humperdinck ( Chris Sarandon). It doesn’t hurt that the script is based on a book by William Goldman, the Oscar winning screenwriter of Marathon Man, All The President’s Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Princess Bride location: the kingdom of ‘Florin’: Haddon Hall, DerbyshireĪs fantasy films grow ever more bloated with CG effects, there’s something disarmingly refreshing about Rob Reiner’s knowing spin on the classic adventure story, which has gone on to become one of the best-loved films of the Eighties. ![]()
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