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The property leased included Royal Lodge, a Gardener's Cottage, the Chapel Lodge, six Lodge Cottages, and police security accommodation in addition to 40 hectares of land. The lease agreement required Prince Andrew to undertake refurbishments at his own expense, which was underestimated at £7.5 million at September 2002 prices, excluding VAT.
The building is on three floors: The ground floor, a warren of cellars and store rooms, is low; its small windows indicating by their size the lowly status and usage of the floor, above which is the double-height banqueting hall, which falsely appears from the outside as a first-floor piano nobile with a secondary floor above. The lower windows ...
Adelaide Cottage was originally built for Queen Adelaide, the wife of King William IV, in 1831, using building materials from the Royal Lodge, according to the Royal Collection.
The renovated building opened in January 1990, with the second floor converted into a community meeting place and banquet hall. The Lodge Room was preserved much as it was in 1923. However, the chandeliers in the Lodge Room were replaced in the 1950s or 1960s with green light fixtures; the new owners installed antique light fixtures in the room ...
The Royal Lodge is located around three miles south of Windsor Castle. It is part of the Crown Estate and was previously the Windsor residence of the Queen Mother from 1952 until her death in 2002.
The cottage incorporates building materials of John Nash's Royal Lodge from Windsor Great Park.At the time of construction in 1831, it was described as "chastely elegant" and having two public rooms, in addition to a retiring room for the queen, and a pages' room, as well as furnishings from the former royal lodge and a marble fireplace mantel in the regency Graeco-Egyptian style.
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The Royal Lodge is located around three miles south of Windsor Castle. It is part of the Crown Estate and was previously the Windsor residence of the Queen Mother from 1952 until her death in 2002.