The Mayfair property is based in the historic Three Kings Yard mews which was once the Italian Embassy Chancery . During the 1930s it was used by Italian ambassador and huge supporter of dictator Benito Mussolini , Dino Grandi . He used the mews to arrange parades of the Blackshirts to celebrate Mussolini 's birthday and Italian National Day . The home , two doors down from where the Italian ambassador lived , is now one of most expensive two-beds in history after going on sale for £4.25m- 25 times its cost in 1985 .
The Mayfair property is based in the historic Three Kings Yard mews which was once the Italian Embassy Chancery . During the 1930s it was used by Italian ambassador and huge supporter of dictator Benito Mussolini , Dino Grandi . He used the mews to arrange parades of the Blackshirts to celebrate Mussolini 's birthday and Italian National Days . The home , two doors down from where the Italian ambassador lived , is now one of most expensive two-beds in history after going on sale for £4.25m- 25 times its cost in 1985 .