visiting the house in 2015. Waddesdon has won many awards over the last 20 years, including Visit England's "Large Visitor Attraction of the Year" category in 2017, Museum of the Year Award and Best National Trust Property. He commissioned the 2015 RIBA Award winner Flint House on the Waddesdon Manor estate in Buckinghamshire, UK. Rothschild donated the property to the Rothschild Foundation which manages the rest of the estate for the National Trust. The estate has been a venue for visiting heads of state including Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Margaret Thatcher received French President François Mitterrand there at a summit in 1990. It hosted the European Economic Round Table conference in 2002, organised by Warren Buffett and attended by James Wolfensohn, former president of the World Bank, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Honours and awards In United Kingdom Member of the Order of Merit (OM) – 2002. Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) – 1998 New Year Honours, "for services to the Arts and to Heritage." Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) – 2020 New Year Honours, "for services to The Prince's Council, Duchy of Cornwall" The Prince of Wales Medal for Arts Philanthropy 2013 Awarded honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford, London, Exeter, Keele, Newcastle and Warwick Honorary Fellow of the British Academy (Hon FBA) – 1998 Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art (FRCA) – 1992 Honorary Fellow of King's College London (Hon FKC) – 2002 "Apollo Personality of the Year" – 2002 Honorary President of the Institute for Jewish Policy – 2002 Mont Blanc Award – 2004 Tercentenary Medal for St Petersburg – 2005 Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford – March 2006 In the United States The Hadrian Award from the World Monuments Fund - 1995 The Classical America – Arthur Ross Award 1998 The Iris Foundation Award – the BARD Institute 1999 The Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement 2000 The Centennial Medal of the American Academy in Rome - 2002 The Kennedy Center's International Committee Lifetime Achievement Gold Medal in the Arts Award 2006 Royal Oak Foundation "Timeless Design Award" - 2009 The J. Paul Getty Medal - 2014 In Continental Europe Commander of the Order of Henry the Navigator (1985) – Portugal Europa Nostra Medal of Honour in Brussels – 2003 Freedom of the City of Saranda – Albania 2003 Honoree of