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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II
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Queen Elizabeth II, the grandmother of Princes William and Harry, was a mother to one and a stepmother to the other, according to two articles in the Daily Mirror. One tells how she refused to give Harry a bigger home for his growing family, and the other tells how she offered William her residence, which she had never used before.
Harry and Megan Markle now live in a beautiful California mansion with their two children, Archie and Lilibet.
After they got engaged, Megan and Harry moved into Harry’s small two-bedroom villa in Kensington Palace, which is very close to that of the Cambridge family.
But after the wedding they wanted to move to a bigger house to start a family and went to the queen with this idea. According to the Sunday Times, the couple asked the queen if they could live in Windsor Castle. But Harry’s grandmother refused and gave them Frogmore Cottage instead, a residence also located in Windsor. But it’s still not the castle. Although there were empty bedrooms in Windsor, she thought that would be inappropriate.
Windsor is the oldest castle in Britain, and with its 1,000 rooms is the largest inhabited castle in the world.
Thus, before the birth of Archie, the couple moved into their home “Frogmore Cottage” later than expected due to delayed repairs. The residence was rebuilt to have four bedrooms and one children’s room. The property is located on 655 acres and is in the small park of Windsor.
They moved to the United States two years ago. Harry, 37, who is sixth in line to inherit the throne despite resigning in 2020, has threatened to sue the Home Office if he can’t provide police protection for his family while in the United States. kingdom.
At the same time, it is clear that the Queen, who spends Christmas and New Year at Windsor Castle, has been quite generous to William and Kate. She has a residence in Windsor, where she has never lived and wanted to give it to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, said Dir. bg.
This residence is “Fort Belvedere”, which was built between 1750 and 1755 for Prince William August, the architecture is in Gothic style and the house was called “Fort” by many members of the royal family. The fort, which has seven bedrooms, a lake and a nearby grove, is located in Royal Park, south of Windsor on the Surrey border.
The apartment building was significantly expanded by George IV, who added an octagonal dining room, and Queen Victoria used it as a teahouse.
In 1929 it became the home of Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, who later became Edward VIII. He spent a huge amount to freshen up the property. It was at Fort Belvedere that he signed his written notice of abdication in 1936, after he was not allowed to remain king if he married the twice-divorced Wallis Simpson.
Edward, who later became Duke of Windsor, moved out and the huge estate was vacant until 1955. The Queen’s cousins then lived there and are now being rented out by the Crown Estate. Last year, acquaintances reported that Prince William and Kate had taken a look at the site and wanted to move to the Fort.
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