Editing William Randolph Hearst (section)

=== St Donat's Castle ===
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After seeing photographs in [[Country Life (magazine)|''Country Life'' magazine]] of [[St Donat's Castle|St. Donat's Castle]] in the [[Vale of Glamorgan]], Wales, Hearst bought and renovated it in 1925 as a gift to his mistress Marion Davies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/08/03/lydia-hearst-is-queen-of-the-castle-91466-21454996/|title=Lydia Hearst is queen of the castle|author=Bevan, Nathan|publisher=Wales on Sunday|date=August 3, 2008|access-date=August 3, 2008|archive-date=October 22, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022101008/http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/08/03/lydia-hearst-is-queen-of-the-castle-91466-21454996/|url-status=live}}</ref> The Castle was restored by Hearst, who spent a fortune buying entire rooms from other castles and palaces across the UK and Europe. The Great Hall was bought from the [[Bradenstoke Priory]] in Wiltshire and reconstructed brick by brick in its current site at St. Donat's. From the Bradenstoke Priory, he also bought and removed the guest house, Prior's lodging, and great tithe barn; of these, some of the materials became the St. Donat's banqueting hall, complete with a sixteenth-century French chimney-piece and windows; also used were a fireplace dated to c. 1514 and a fourteenth-century roof, which became part of the Bradenstoke Hall, despite this use being questioned in Parliament. Hearst built 34 green and white marble bathrooms for the many guest suites in the castle and completed a series of terraced gardens which survive intact today. Hearst and Davies spent much of their time entertaining, and held a number of lavish parties attended by guests including [[Charlie Chaplin]], [[Douglas Fairbanks]], [[Winston Churchill]], and a young [[John F. Kennedy]]. When Hearst died, the castle was purchased by Antonin Besse II and donated to [[Atlantic College]], an international boarding school founded by [[Kurt Hahn]] in 1962, which still uses it.