Only one head of state stayed last year — yet Farmleigh costs €8k a day to run

The king and queen consort of one of Africa’s poorest countries were the only heads of state to stay overnight at the State’s €52m Farmleigh House last year.

King Letsie III of Lesotho and his wife, Queen Consort Masenate Mohato Seeiso, stayed at the 18th-century Georgian residence for two nights last May during an official visit.

The only other overnight residents were members of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).