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History. The Norfolk Retreat of Their Majesties. The House is perhaps the most famous stately home in Norfolk and is at the heart of the 8,000 hectare Sandringham Estate. 24 hectares of which make up the woodland and heath of the Sandringham Royal Park, open to the public every day of the year.
The site has been occupied since Elizabethan times, when a large manor house was constructed. This was replaced in 1771 by a Georgian mansion for the owners, the Hoste Henleys. In 1836 Sandringham was bought by John Motteux, a London merchant, who already owned property in Norfolk and Surrey.
6 feb 2024 · History. Located in Norfolk, England, just over 100 miles north of London, the Sandringham Estate covers 20,000 acres of land. The British royal family acquired the estate in 1862, when it was...
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In the spring of 1862, Sandringham House with its estate at the time of 2,800 hectares was bought from Cowper as a country home for Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, who had just turned 21. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had decided that he should move from the family home to a house of his own.
23 apr 2024 · Sandringham, village (parish) and royal mansion, King’s Lynn and West Norfolk borough, administrative and historic county of Norfolk, England. With the surrounding estate of 19,500 acres (7,900 hectares) of sandy heath and farmland, the mansion was acquired for the prince of Wales, later Edward.
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3 gen 2021 · History Palaces & Buildings. Royal Residences: A brief history of Sandringham House. By Rebecca Russell. 3rd January 2021. There are only a handful of Christmases that The Queen has not...
23 dic 2022 · Sandringham, realizzata nel 1771 dall'architetto Cornish Henley, divenne proprietà della famiglia reale nel 1862 come residenza di campagna per l’allora principe di Galles, il futuro re Edoardo...
