Elibank House

The stately red-brick house, in the small village of Taplow, was built in 1705 for the 4th Lord Elibank and was eponymously dubbed Elibank House. The property later became the home of Alexander Murray, the lord’s son, who played a crucial role in a plot to kidnap King George II and other members of the royal family, in a scheme that came to bear the family name: The Elibank Plot.

Murray and his co-conspirators had planned to seize St. James’s Palace, open the gates of the Tower of London and smuggle the Royal Family to France—though Murray was supposedly more in favor of murdering the Royals then shipping them to the continent.

The kidnapping failed to materialize, and the plot has been dubbed a “fiasco” with a lack of financial support and cold feet on the part of the plotters. Details of the coup attempt were also revealed to the authorities by a spy named “Pickle,” according to accounts of the plan.