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Koos Bekker's $334m Somerset Takeover Sparks a Boycott

Castle Cary did not ask to become a billionaire's project. It simply woke up one morning and found itself becoming one.South African billionaire Koos Bekker and his wife Karen Roos bought Hadspen House, a Grade II listed Somerset estate, for £12 million eleven years ago and converted it into The Newt, a luxury hotel where a night's stay now starts at £795. That was the plan. What followed was not. Bekker kept buying. The Creamery Cafe at the loc…
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Billionaires.Africa broke the news on Thursday, June 25, 2026.
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