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Its virtues include stately homes from the city’s heyday, a few busy downtown blocks, an art museum, a leafy campus and a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house.

Art experts say they are delighted that a stolen painting has been returned to a stately home after being missing for 45 years.

Queen Elizabeth I is among the former stately home's previous residents, having lived there from the age of 20 before she became queen in 1558, according to Somerset House's website.

Somerset House will undergo a "phased reopening" this weekend after more than 100 fire crews responded to a blaze at the former stately home on Saturday.

Sometimes, such a find comes with a mystery: How the heck did the woman make her way from Burghley House, a stately home near Peterborough, England, to a shallow grave 300 yards away?