Frogmore Cottage

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Frogmore Cottage, 1872

Frogmore Cottage is a historic building in the grounds of Frogmore House in Windsor Castle Park . The building is part of the Crown Estate and is currently inhabited by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor .

history

The cottage was originally called the Double Garden Cottage and was built in 1801 by a Mr. Bowen on Queen Charlotte's orders for £ 450. On June 28, 1875, Queen Victoria had breakfast there and mentioned an immense number of small frogs. Because of the frog population in the surrounding gardens, the building was also named "Frogmore". The cottage has been on the National Heritage List of England since 1975.

Residents

The building initially served as a retreat for Queen Charlotte and her unmarried daughters. In the 1840s, theologian Henry James Sr. (1811-1882) lived with his family at Frogmore Cottage. In 1897 a secretary to Queen Victoria, Abdul Karim , moved into the building with his wife and father. In the 1920s, exiled Russian Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna Romanova stayed at Frogmore Cottage.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the cottage was occupied by workers from the Windsor estate.

In 2019, the £ 2.4 million home was refurbished and remodeled to once again serve as a four-bedroom, nursery family home. Furniture and interiors were paid for by the new residents, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan ; the renovation costs were paid from the sovereign grant (ultimately from taxpayers' money). Frogmore Cottage should have been redeveloped as a Crown property and a cultural monument regardless of the residents. Harry and Meghan moved from Nottingham Cottage in Kensington to Frogmore Cottage in the spring of 2019 before the birth of their first child, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor .

On January 18, Queen Elizabeth II and Buckingham Palace announced in statements that Harry and Meghan will voluntarily renounce the use of the title "Royal Highness" from spring 2020 and that they will pay the renovation and renovation costs of 2.4 Pay back millions of pounds.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jane Roberts, Lady Roberts: Royal Landscape: The Gardens and Park of Windsor . Yale University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-300-07079-9 , pp. 227 (English).
  2. ^ Queen Victoria: The Letters of Queen Victoria . Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-108-07780-4 , pp. 410 (English).
  3. ↑ historicengland.org.uk: No. 1117778 , registered October 2, 1975.
  4. ^ Daniel Maudlin: The Idea of ​​the Cottage in English Architecture, 1760-1860 . Routledge, 2017, ISBN 978-1-317-64315-9 (English).
  5. ↑ Jenny Helin; Tor Hernes; Daniel Hjorth; Robin Holt: The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies . Oxford University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-164810-6 , pp. 213 (English).
  6. ^ Greg King: Twilight of Splendor: The Court of Queen Victoria During Her Diamond Jubilee Year . John Wiley & Sons, 2007, ISBN 978-0-470-04439-1 , pp. 201 (English).
  7. ↑ Toby Faber: Faberge's Eggs: One Man's Masterpieces and the End of an Empire . Pan Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 978-0-230-71396-3 (English).
  8. ↑ Victoria Murphy: Prince Harry & Meghan Markle's Renovations to Frogmore Cottage Cost $ 3.05 million. In: Town & Country. June 24, 2019, accessed October 7, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Erica Gonzales: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Officially Move to Frogmore Cottage and Out of Kensington Palace. In: Harper's Bazaar. April 4, 2019, accessed October 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Kirsty, Oram: Statement from Her Majesty The Queen. January 18, 2020, accessed on January 18, 2020 .
  11. ↑ FAZ.net January 18, 2020: Harry and Meghan repay millions of dollars in tax money

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 34.7 "  N , 0 ° 35 ′ 52.8"  W.