Cumberland Lodge
Cumberland Lodge is a building in Windsor Great Park and is 5.6 km south of Windsor Castle.
History
The house was built around 1650 by an army officer by the name of John Byfield after Oliver Cromwell parcel lined parts of Windsor Great Park and had to sell. The house was later called Byfield House 1670 New Lodge. But also referred to as Windsor Lodge or Ranger Lodge.
After the Restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, the house became the official Residents of the Ranger of Windsor Great Park, one of the royal court official in the Royal household.
In 1936, a momentous meeting between the private secretary of King Edward VIII and the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was held at Cumberland House, which led to the abdication as a part of Edward VIII.
1947 gave King George VI. the use of the Cumberland Lodge on the St. Katharine Foundation later King George VI. and Queen Elizabeth Foundation of St. Catherine and now known as Cumberland Lodge. The Foundation was founded by Miss Amy Buller. Your experiences in Germany between the two world wars allowed her the rise of National Socialism also by the inability of the great German universities due, as they allowed their students not a platform for critical analysis and public discussion on issues of the day.
From this, they developed the idea of a residential center where students lived with their teachers and in a relaxed atmosphere could treat the most important to them ethical and social issues outside the normal course. She won the active support of the King and Queen that oversaw the company through the transfer of Cumberland Lodge in the act. Therefore, the Foundation received its new name in 1968 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Foundation of St Catharine. Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother was Patron of the Foundation and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon was its Chairman. The Foundation is now called after her office: Cumberland Lodge.
Today, academic workshops and short residential courses for groups of students found in Cumberland Lodge university seminars, instead, come here to examine the basic assumptions on which they are based political, economic and scientific activities, in the context of Christian philosophy. The building is not open to the public.
Those who once lived in Cumberland Lodge (selection)
- Baptist May, the first resident ranger;
- Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1702-1744); John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough who here died in 1722;
- John Spencer (1744-1746);
- William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, son of King George II (1746-1765);
- Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, son of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales (1765-1790);
- Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn, widow of Henry (1790-1803);
- George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough (up to 1822);
- Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, son of King George III. (1830-1843);
- Helena of Great Britain and Ireland, daughter of Queen Victoria and wife of Christian of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- August Castle (1846-1923);
- Marie Louise of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- August Castle (1872-1956);
- Lord Fitzalan of Derwent, last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ( 1923-1947 ).