But the man whose idea it was, and who paid for a good proportion of it, Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminyster, died of a heart attack on 9 August 2016, aged only 64. Built with private funds, it was officially handed over to the nation in a ceremony last Thursday and will gradually reach full operational capacity over the rest of the year. The building at Stanford in the East Midlands is the new Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre ( DNRC) for injured servicemen and civilians (replacing the current facility at Headley Court in Surrey). Look after those who sacrificed so much.”’ In a sense he will be here, though, looking down and saying, “Job well done. ‘I wish my father could be here for the opening,’ he says, ‘after all that he has done for this place. Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster, and I are looking towards a magnificent, newly built edifice on the skyline of the Nottinghamshire-Leicestershire border when we meet in May, and he becomes wistful.
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