Word: sandringham
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...command center for that role is Charles' desk in his suite at Buckingham Palace. There are suites for the Prince at Windsor, Balmoral, Sandringham and other castle-homes, and the new digs at Chevening House in Kent, still under renovation. Charles has both his lodgings and office in his third-floor palace apartment overlooking St. James's Park. A few years back, Designer David Hicks redecorated the suite, but Charles has added his own touches and a good bit of clutter. The bathroom is hung with favorite cartoons, the sitting room crammed with memorabilia from his journeys. There are books...
Often the series succeeds despite itself. The great Whig country houses have never looked grander, and it is almost worth the wait to see the enormous chair on which Edward VII weighed his celebrated guests at Sandringham. His great delight was to weigh them again when they left, after his seven-course lunches and twelve-course dinners, and see how many pounds he had put on them. The good moments aside, Royal Heritage is a well-meaning failure, proof that the British, who usually do these things so well, can, on occasion, also stumble and fall...
There's no place like home for the holidays, unfortunately. Sandringham House, the 365-room Victorian manor in Norfolk where Queen Elizabeth usually throws a lavish New Year's house party, is closed this year for a $550,000 modernization. The Queen, 48, her husband Prince Philip, 53, their sons Princes Charles, 26, Andrew, 14, and Edward, 10, and a handful of servants squeezed themselves into a nearby six-bedroom farmhouse known as Wood Farm; all other royals, including the Queen Mother, 74, and guests, were left to fend for themselves in nearby fiefs or hotels. Only...
...estate. Now Charles, a childhood friend of Jane's, apparently thinks of her as more than just a girl-next-door romance, and so do many of his subjects. When dark, petite Jane was invited to spend the New Year's holiday with the royal family at Sandringham, more than 10,000 Britons drove, biked or hiked past the castle to catch Jane and Charles together. Despite the recurring engagement rumors, Charles departed unbetrothed for a four-month stint with the Royal Navy in the Far East, leaving Jane behind at her job with a London art gallery...
After Cavalry Lieut. Mark Phillips spent two successive weekends as a guest of Britain's Princess Anne at Sandringham House, London gossips were atwitter at the prospects of the first British royal wedding in more than a decade. The twitter grew louder when the lieutenant, sailing off for a two-year tour of duty in Germany, bade a warm dockside farewell to the Princess in full view of stevedores, soldiers and security guards. "They were just like any other couple saying goodbye to each other," said a guard. "They were two nice little kisses." But to talk...