Hever Castle dates from 1270. It is best known as the home of Anne Bullen, later Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII and mother of Queen Elizabeth I, who was beheaded at the Tower of London on 19th May 1536. The castle was later the home of the Meade-Waldo family, a member of whom served in the Sevenoaks Troop of the West Kent Yeomanry in the 1830s.

In 1903 it was bought by Mr William Waldorf Astor, a wealthy American businessman, who restored the Castle and gardens and also built the Tudor village alongside. He became the first Viscount Astor of Hever. His second son, John Jacob Astor succeeded to the ownership of Hever Castle in 1918 and became Lord Astor of Hever in 1956. In 1983, the Castle was sold by the Astor Family to Broadland Properties Ltd, a Yorkshire-based private company.
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