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Britain's Oldest - And Poshest - Bed

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UK's oldest continuously-used bed found

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In really posh British houses, there are no such things as antiques, just very, very old pieces of furniture (hence the old British insult that the nouveau riche are people who buy their own furniture).

So what could be a more splendid statement of one's aristocratic lineage than bedding down at...

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