Waddesdon Manor in Film and Television
Several films have been shot at Waddesdon Manor, including the Carry On film Don't Lose Your Head, the Indian film Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham and in 2006 The Queen, in which interiors and the gardens doubled for Buckingham Palace. Waddesdon Manor has been used in several television series. The house stood in for the exterior of the fictional Haxby Park in the second season of Downton Abbey (the interior was filmed at Halton House) when Mary and Sir Richard intend to marry and so look for a house in which they wish to live in, and as Snow White's and Prince Wendell's castle in the TV mini-series The Tenth Kingdom. In the latter series, Computer-generated imagery was used to make Waddeston look larger. It was used as the O'Connell family's home in the film The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and as the front part of the 'Hotel du Triomphe' in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
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