Talk:Plas Dinas

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Did you know... that Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret spent much time at his family's Welsh country mansion Plas Dinas, but after his father's death the estate went to Snowdon's younger half-brother?

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The result was: promoted by Lightburst (talk) 21:42, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Plas Dinas

... that Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon spent much time at his family's Welsh country mansion Plas Dinas (pictured), but after his father's death the estate went to Snowdon's younger half-brother? Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=ZX01AgAAQBAJ&pg=PP201
- ALT1: ... that Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret spent much time at his family's Welsh country mansion Plas Dinas (pictured), but after his father's death the estate went to Snowdon's younger half-brother?
- ALT2: ... that the Welsh country house Plas Dinas (pictured), the ancestral mansion of Lord Snowdon where he and Princess Margaret spent weekends, is now a 5-star hotel? Source: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3697383
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Elfie Caroline Huntington
- Comment: Alternate images:

Plas Dinas

Also might consider cropping out a good deal of the gray foreground of the current image.

Created by Softlavender (talk). Self-nominated at 01:23, 25 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Plas Dinas; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Article created 20 May. No issues of copyvio or plagiarism. All sources appear reliable. QPQ is done. I feel that ALT2 is the only interesting hook. Looks ready to go. Thriley (talk) 16:55, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]