Julie Andrews House: Her Quiet Sag Harbor Life, the Brentwood Home She Sold, and the Gstaad Chalet She Loved

Dame Julie Andrews turned 91 this month, and the question fans ask most — where does she live now? — has a quieter answer than the internet usually gives. She lives in Sag Harbor, New York, a historic whaling village in the Hamptons, close to her daughter Emma. The “$8 million Bel Air estate” described in older versions of this article does not stand up to scrutiny: the Los Angeles home she actually owned with her husband, director Blake Edwards, was in Brentwood, and it sold more than a decade ago. Here is the verified story of her homes.

Who Is Julie Andrews?

Julie Andrews is one of the most beloved performers of the last century — Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins (1964), Maria in The Sound of Music (1965), and, for a new generation, the voice of Lady Whistledown in Netflix’s Bridgerton. Born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, she has also written bestselling children’s books with her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton. Her fortune is commonly estimated at around $30 million.

Where Julie Andrews Lives Now: Sag Harbor, New York

Andrews lives in Sag Harbor, on Long Island’s East End — a deliberate step away from Hollywood. The village matters to the family: her daughter Emma co-founded its Bay Street Theater, and Emma lives nearby. Recent reporting by the Daily Mail, echoed by Parade on the occasion of her 91st birthday in October 2026, describes a contented, home-centred life: she tends her roses, largely avoids the Hamptons social scene despite the invitations, and works from home — her Hamptons house has a recording booth, built for her by her grandson Sam, a sound engineer, where she records her Bridgerton narration.

She has been frank about the pace she prefers. “I don’t go out that much, and I like to stay home,” she said on the Wiser Than Me podcast in 2024. She also recently declined to return as Queen Clarisse in The Princess Diaries 3, telling The Hollywood Reporter it was “very, very hard to say no” but that the film would flourish without “Granny going in there at my age.”

Out of respect for how private she keeps it, almost nothing reliable is published about the Sag Harbor house itself — no verified price, size or layout exists in the public record. What is documented is the life around it: family, a garden full of roses, and work she can do from home.

The Brentwood House She and Blake Edwards Actually Owned

The documented Los Angeles chapter of her life is Brentwood, not Bel Air. Andrews and Blake Edwards bought their Brentwood home in 1989 for $1.2 million. Two years after Edwards’ death in December 2010, she listed it in 2012 for $2.649 million — and it went into escrow in less than a month, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The house itself was modest by celebrity standards, which suited her. The LA Times described a tidy, traditional white home with gray shutters on a gated lot of less than a quarter of an acre, wrapped in tall hedges for privacy. Inside: a living room and family room with French doors opening to the garden, a formal dining room with a cathedral ceiling and glass walls, and an artist’s studio with its own bathroom above the garage — four bedrooms and three bathrooms in total. Outside there was a swimming pool and spa. No 8,000-square-foot estate — a comfortable family home, kept for more than twenty years.

Fleur de Lys: The Gstaad Chalet She Loved for Four Decades

If one house captures her heart, it is in the Swiss Alps. Andrews first came to Gstaad in 1968 with Edwards, the year before they married, and called it love at first sight. In 1971 they bought a chalet there and named it Fleur de Lys. She described Gstaad as “the last paradise in a crazy world,” and wrote at the chalet for years — reports say the script for Victor/Victoria (1982) was written by its fireplace.

Her attachment to the village went well beyond the chalet walls. Noticing that rooftops disappeared into the dark on winter nights, she paid for 1,000 Christmas lights for the village — and funded their maintenance for 12 years. The lights are still known locally as the “Julie-Lämpli”. In June 2014, the municipality of Saanen made her an honorary citizen — only the tenth person so honoured — with Swiss broadcaster reporting at the time that she had kept the chalet for more than 40 years.

Other Chapters: Malibu and England

During the busy family years of the 1970s — the couple adopted their daughters Amy in 1974 and Joanna in 1975 — the family divided its time between California, England and Switzerland, including time in a Malibu beach house. Those were working years, spent where filming and family required. In later life she simplified: the Brentwood house was sold in 2012, and Sag Harbor became home.

A Note on the Earlier Version of This Article

An earlier version of this article described an “$8 million Bel Air estate” of 8,000 square feet bought in the 1970s, and said Andrews sold her Gstaad chalet after her husband’s death. We could not verify either claim against any credible record — the documented Los Angeles purchase is the 1989 Brentwood house at $1.2 million, listed in 2012 at $2.649 million, and Swiss reporting describes the Gstaad chalet as hers for over four decades. We have replaced the old text with the verified account above.

The Bottom Line

Julie Andrews’ real estate story is the opposite of the usual celebrity portfolio: a Brentwood family home kept for 23 years, a beloved Swiss chalet kept for more than four decades, and now a quiet life in Sag Harbor near her daughter. No $8 million mansion required — just homes that were loved, and kept.

Sources: Wikipedia (residence, family); Los Angeles Times Hot Property via World Property Journal and Celebrity Net Worth (Brentwood purchase 1989, $1.2m; listing 2012, $2.649m); Swissinfo, 6 June 2014 (Gstaad honorary citizenship, Fleur de Lys bought 1971, Christmas lights); Daily Mail reporting via Parade, October 2026 (Sag Harbor life at 91); The Hollywood Reporter (Princess Diaries 3).