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Chequers (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ k ər z / CHEK-ərz) is the country house of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.A 16th-century manor house in origin, it is near the village of Ellesborough, halfway between Princes Risborough and Wendover in Buckinghamshire, at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, 40 miles (64 km) north-west of central London.
Prime Minister's Cottage (country retreat of the prime minister) Speaker's Residence (official residence of the speaker of the Parliament) Chief Justice's House, Colombo (official residence of the chief justice) Visumpaya (Residence of a cabinet minister nominated by the president) General's House (country retreat for Members of Parliament)
Chequers was gifted to the British state in 1921 and has been the country escape for each prime minister ever since, reports Ellie Muir
In 1972, the country was renamed as the Free, Sovereign and Independent Republic of Sri Lanka, and the position was known as the prime minister of Sri Lanka from then onwards. The prime minister also held the unified Ministry of External Affairs and Defence until 1977, when the government of J. R. Jayewardene split the ministry into two ...
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Prime Minister's Lodge (also known as the Prime Minister's Cottage) is a country house in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka. It is the vacationing and country residence of the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka . Located within the limits of the Nuwara Eliya Municipal Council along the Queen Elizabeth Drive, close to the Queen's Cottage .
President's House is the official residence and workplace of the President of Sri Lanka, located at Janadhipathi Mawatha, Colombo, Sri Lanka.Since 1804 it had been the residence of British Governors and Governors-General and was known as the "King's House" or the "Queen's House" until Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972.