A couple who bought a 20-room French chateau for the price of a London flat say spiraling energy costs have turned their dream home into a Christmas nightmare. Lionel, 64, and Claire Cherruault ...

To reciprocate the honors bestowed by King George VI when he visited the front before Christmas ... has his chateau-headquarters. With crack detachments of the Welsh Guards and 8th French Zouaves ...

The French are selling their châteaus for cheap ... "It was almost like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' with all the wires hanging," Carter recalls. But the place had good bones.