The barons of Berkshire: Gayle Killilea and Sean Dunne’s grand design for an Ascot mansion

Council has now granted planning permission for a 787 square metre modernist pad to replace a house bought for £2.75m

Barons of Berkshire: The Killilea-Dunne's grand designs for mingling in Ascot

Fionnán Sheahan

Ascot in Berkshire has been hosting kings and queens, lords and ladies, for centuries. The Royal Ascot race meeting in June is the highlight of the upper classes social calendar in England.

And now some Celtic Tiger royalty is moving into the area.