This day found us on the outskirts of High Wycombe in the Chiltern Hills visiting Hughenden, country home of the popular Victorian era prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli. Dizzy, as he was affectionately known by his intimates, became a favorite of Queen Victoria upon the untimely death of her husband, Prince Albert, and served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: in 1868, and then again from 1874 to 1880. Surprisingly, Disraeli was also a prolific novelist, writing 17 of them between 1826 and his death in 1881.
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| Along the road to the house. |
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| Hughenden |
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| Statue of Disraeli |
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| Portrait of Queen Victoria |
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| In the Dining Room |
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| Victoria & Albert |
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| One of the UK's 1st indoor toilets. |
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| A reproduction of the surprisingly small bed of Disraeli & his wife Mary Anne. |
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| Young Disraeli |
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| Bust of a somewhat older Disraeli. |
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| Death mask of Disraeli |
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| In the orchard |
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| Unique bird houses |
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| Final resting place of Disraeli & his wife. |
who would think to make a bird house out of shoes......the other pictures how the wealthy did live.....always like to look at grave yards.
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