Editing Leeds Castle (section)

==Filming location==
The castle was a location for the [[Ealing Comedy]] film ''[[Kind Hearts and Coronets]]'' (1949) as a stand-in for 'Chalfont', the ancestral home of the aristocratic d'Ascoyne family. It also appeared in the films ''[[The Moonraker]]'' (1958) and ''[[Waltz of the Toreadors (film)|Waltz of the Toreadors]]'' (1962). It was used for filming of ''Purge of Kingdoms'' (2019) starring Armando Gutierrez and [[Angus Macfadyen]].{{cn|date=December 2024}}

On the small screen, the castle and grounds provided all the filming locations for a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial, ''[[The Androids of Tara]]'', in 1978. [[Cliff Richard]] performed a live concert at the location (released on DVD), with Leeds Castle as a backdrop, titled ''Castles in the Air''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://openbuildings.com/buildings/leeds-castle-profile-6474?_show_description=1 |title=openbuildings.com/ |access-date=4 May 2017 |archive-date=26 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126123430/https://clippings.com/?utm_campaign=openbuildings_eol&utm_term=buildings%2Fleeds-castle-profile-6474 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Turner |first1=Steve |title=Cliff Richard: the Biography: 50th Anniversary Edition |date=2008 |location=Oxford |publisher=Lion Books |isbn=978-0-7459-5279-6 |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=He0S6tFOGPUC&pg=PA16 |language=en |via=Google Books |access-date=15 November 2022 |archive-date=8 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208002636/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cliff_Richard_the_Biography/He0S6tFOGPUC?hl=en&pg=PA16&gbpv=1 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Androids of Tara |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/androidsoftara/detail.shtml |website=Doctor Who Classic Episodes Guide |publisher=BBC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220063510/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/androidsoftara/detail.shtml |archive-date=20 February 2020}}</ref>

A more recent source states that the castle has been used for ''[[The Hollow Crown (TV series)|The Hollow Crown]]'' television series, for a [[Bollywood]] action movie called ''[[Rustom (film)|Rustom]]'' and for [[Darkest Hour (film)|"Darkest Hour"]], "Casanova, Classic [[Mary Berry]] ([[BBC1]]), [[Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series)|Who Do You Think You Are]] special with [[Danny Dyer]], Antiques Roadtrip (BBC1), and What Would Your Kid Do? ([[ITV (TV network)|ITV]])".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thelocationguide.com/focus18_interviews_leedscastle/ |title=FOCUS talks to Gemma Wright of film-friendly location Leeds Castle, exhibiting for the first time at FOCUS. |date=20 January 2021 |work=TheLocationGuide |access-date=21 January 2021 |quote= |archive-date=22 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122090913/https://www.thelocationguide.com/focus18_interviews_leedscastle/ |url-status=live}}</ref>