Residences
In 1963, Taylor moved to the Bahamas, taking advantage of the warm climate and its inheritance tax laws. He lived in the gated community he had built called Lyford Cay. He died there in 1989 at the age of 88. A friend of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in December 1962 the President stayed at Taylor's home in Lyford Cay while he held talks with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
Windfields Estate was Taylor's home and was situated at 2489 Bayview Avenue in North York, Ontario (now part of Toronto). It is now the site of The Canadian Film Centre. The 25-acre (10 ha) estate has been preserved as a heritage site. The Canadian Royal Family often stayed at Windfields when they visited Toronto; the last royals to stay there were Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, in the summers of 1974 and 1981 and Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales. There were many maids, two gardeners and a house manager who worked at the residence.
His son, journalist and author Charles P. B. Taylor, died in 1997 at 62 after a nine-year battle with cancer.
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