Harry and Meghan 'submit their plans for further renovations to Frogmore Cottage & # 39; Windsor

The Duke and Duchess of Susbad settled earlier this year at Frogmore Cottage, a two-storey, stuccoed, Grade II home located north of the Frogmore Estate in the Windsor Estate.

The estate is the site of Frogmore House, a beautiful 17th century mansion that has been a royal residence since 1792, where Harry and Meghan had their evening after their wedding in May 2018.

The house was built from 1680 to 1684 by the architect of Charles II Hugh May on the estates of Great and Little Frogmore, which were purchased by Henry VIII in the 16th century and rented to various tenants.

Frogmore Cottage is a two storey, stuccoed, Grade II listed home located north of the Frogmore Estate on the Windsor Estate.

The name comes from the high number of frogs that live in the low marsh area, located in a long curve of the Thames.

The lease pbaded through many hands until 1792, when Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, bought it to use as a retreat in the countryside for her and her daughters.

It then became the home of the Duchess of Kent, mother of Queen Victoria, who rests in a mausoleum on the ground.

The Frogmore House was repaired, restored and redecorated in the 1980s. It revealed Louis Laguerre's early 18th century lost wall paintings depicting scenes from Virgil's Aeneid.

Since Queen Charlotte's residence, there is the Mary Moser Room – painted for her by the famous flower artist with sheaves and garlands of brightly colored flowers.

The lilac salon of the Duchess of Kent is recreated as precisely as possible in the way it appears on old photographs of 1861.

There is also the Britannia Room where, after the decommissioning of the Royal Yacht in 1997, the Duke of Edinburgh organized a selection of items reflecting the interior of the much loved ship.

The winding lakes, wooded mounds, clearings, promenades and bridges around the Grade I listed building were laid out in the 1790s and include a summer house designed as a Gothic ruin.

The grounds include the mausoleum of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and the royal cemetery where Harry's great uncle, the abdicated king Edward VIII, is buried with his wife Wallis Simpson, who will later be the Duchess of Windsor.