Sandringham House

Sandringham House is a country house near the village of Sandringham in Dersingham in the English county of Norfolk. To the property has 32 square kilometers surrounding country. It is privately owned by the British royal family and not part of the Crown Estate. More property in the extensive grounds are York Cottage and Amner Hall. The official name for the entire holdings of land and buildings is Sandringham Estate.

History

The area was inhabited since the second half of the 16th century. The architect Cornish Henley left the premises vacate in 1771 and built the Sandringham Hall. During the 19th century the estate owned by Charles Spencer Cowper, a stepson of the Prime Minister Viscount Palmerston was. In its order, the architect Samuel Sanders Teulon extended the building to a porch and a conservatory.

1862 Queen Victoria purchased the property as a residence for her son, the Prince of Wales ( later King Edward VII ) and his wife, Alexandra of Denmark. It proved to be too small for the needs of the heir to the throne and was demolished and completely rebuilt.

The new castle of red brick was completed in 1870 and remained unchanged until today substantially. The architecture is not particularly remarkable, but technically was ahead of his time the house because it had gas lighting, toilets with running water and even an early form of a shower. Part of the building burned down in 1891 during preparations for the 50th birthday of Prince Edward, but was later rebuilt.

The Royal Family, including the Queen, the estate inhabited today each from Christmas until about the end of January and spends her time with the bird hunting. Edward VII loved hunting so much that he had set half an hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time all clocks to have more time for his hobby. This tradition of Sandringham Time was maintained from 1901 to 1936.

Queen Alexandra, her son and her grandson George V, George VI. all died at Sandringham House.

Visit

Parts of Sandringham House are the most time of the year to the public. On the ground floor numerous works of art can be seen that were made to the English royal house of other European monarchs to the present. Below that is a chandelier made ​​of Meissen porcelain, a gift from the German Emperor Wilhelm I.

King George V was in 1928 in a former stables set up a museum. In addition to numerous hunting trophies here are also several Staatskarrossen to see, including the first car of the royal family at all, a Daimler Phaeton from the year 1900.

Sandringham House is surrounded by three acres of palace gardens, as well as a 243 -acre park, both of which are publicly available. The rest of the Sandringham House belonging terrain is ever leased half of farmers and managed by a forestry operation with its own sawmill.