grace-and-favour

noun

1. modifier (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude

Example Sentences

When Sophia grew up, she was given a grace-and-favour apartment by the queen in the Hampton Court Palace, outside which she would later go on to protest for the right to vote.

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Sophia grew up in Elveden on the Norfolk-Suffolk border before moving in 1896 to Faraday House, a grace-and-favour apartment owned by Queen Victoria.

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Liz Truss is contesting a government bill relating to her use of the grace-and-favour country house she had access to as foreign secretary.

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Mr Sunak also has the use of a taxpayer-owned flat in Downing Street, and Dorneywood, a grace-and-favour mansion in Buckinghamshire.

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She's invited him to Chevening, a 115-room grace-and-favour country mansion in Kent, that she shares the use of with deputy PM Dominic Raab, for an overnight stay.

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