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The Royal Mausoleum is a mausoleum for Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert, Prince Consort. It is located on the Frogmore estate within the Home Park at Windsor in Berkshire , England. It was listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England in October 1975. [ 1 ]
Queen Victoria's Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore and the Royal Burial Ground (front). The Royal Burial Ground is a cemetery used by the British royal family.Consecrated on 23 October 1928 by the Bishop of Oxford, it is adjacent to the Royal Mausoleum, which was built in 1862 to house the tomb of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
The Royal Mausoleum with the Royal Burial Ground in front Main article: Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore The second mausoleum in the grounds of Frogmore, just a short distance from the Duchess of Kent's Mausoleum, is the much larger Royal Mausoleum, the burial place of Queen Victoria and her consort, Prince Albert . [ 12 ]
The house was in good condition, but to make it fit for royal inhabitants, James Wyatt was employed to enlarge and modernise Frogmore House. Between 1795 and 1804, Wyatt enlarged the second floor, added flanking pavilions to the north and south of the house and extended to make room for a new dining room and library. [ 1 ]
Albert Jenkins Humbert ("A. J. Humbert") (1821–1877) [1] was a British architect particularly favoured by Prince Albert.. Amongst the buildings he is particularly associated with are Sandringham House [1] [2] and St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham [1] [3] and both the Duchess of Kent's Mausoleum [1] and the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore, [1] [3] within the Home Park of Windsor Castle.
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In 1840, Frogmore was inherited by the Duchess of Kent and, following her death in 1861, by her daughter, Queen Victoria. [2] The estate became a favoured, almost sacred, [ 7 ] retreat; after burying her mother in a mausoleum overlooking the lake, the Queen commissioned another, the Royal Mausoleum , for her husband Albert, Prince Consort and ...
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