Frogmore House

Frogmore ( officially Frogmore Estate ) is an estate on the grounds of Windsor Castle in the English county of Berkshire. Distinctive buildings are Frogmore House, the mausoleum of the Duchess of Kent, the Royal Mausoleum of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and the Royal Burial Ground as a private cemetery of the royal family. The property is used by the royal family in private and the public only a few days of the year available.

Frogmore House

Frogmore House was built in 1680 and 1792 by King George III. bought as a country palace for Queen Charlotte. Queen Victoria's mother, Victoria of Saxe- Coburg- Saalfeld, Duchess of Kent, lived here as a widow and later in a house built for them in the park mausoleum (see below) buried. After her death, Frogmore House served various relatives of the royal family as a residence. In 1900 lived here about Admiral Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg and Princess Victoria Alberta of Hesse and by Rhine, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Her son, Louis, later First Sea Lord and Viceroy of India, was born in Frogmore House.

Grave sites

In the gardens of Frogmore House, Queen Victoria was very close to her mother a second mausoleum mausoleum ( Royal Mausoleum, 51 ° 28 ' 26 " N, 0 ° 35' 54" W51.474 - 0.59833333333333 ) build that as well for themselves her husband was determined because she wanted to be buried not in one of the two major grave sites of the English kings ( Westminster Abbey or Windsor Castle). On a grassy area behind the Royal Mausoleum is the Royal Cemetery ( Royal Burial Ground ), on the 1928 most members of the royal family - to be buried - with the exception of the monarchs and their consorts.

The following members of the British royal family found in Frogmore their final resting:

Mausoleum of the Duchess of Kent

Royal Mausoleum

Royal Burial Ground

See also: tombs of European monarchs