Captain Tom's family slash asking price for country mansion and wipe his name from listing
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Captain Sir Tom Moore's family have slashed £250,000 off the price of their country mansion and wiped any mention of his name from an online listing. The lockdown hero's loved ones had tried to shift the sprawling seven-bed mansion for a whopping £2.25m using his name last year. They strategically placed a photo of Capt Tom being knighted by the late Queen in 2020 in an online listing.
And a bust recreating the moment he finished his multi-million pound fundraising walk during the pandemic was also seen in a snap of the main hallway. But they pulled the property off the open market amid a backlash at their handling of the charity set up in his name.
Now the property in Marston Moretaine, Beds, is back up for grabs for offers in excess of £2million - with no sign of Capt Tom in any of the images. An online listing makes no mention of the veteran's charity heroics and does not name his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore, 53, and husband Colin, 66.
It simply states: "The vendors have owned the property for 18 years and have undertaken a comprehensive programme of improvement and renovation." In November the couple were criticised by a watchdog for pocketing more than £1million in his name. They gained significant financial benefit from links to a charity - the Captain Tom Foundation - that they set up in 2020, a report said. The Charity Commission said its probe into the foundation uncovered "repeated failures of governance and integrity".
