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Contains: Black & white photographs; Colour plates; Maps to the endpapers and blanks; Appendices [4];

From the cover: “CUMBERLAND LODGE is a royal house in a royal park — yet it was built by one of Oliver Cromwell’s republican Ironsides. After the Restoration it was taken over by Charles II ‘for his own diversion’ and became the residence of the Ranger of Windsor Great Park. This coveted office was always granted to someone close to the sovereign. At the Lodge they lived privately‚ shaping house and gardens to their requirements and architectural tastes.

The great Duke of Marlborough’s redoubtable wife Sarah Churchill was among them: she was foiled by Walpole in an attempt to arrange a clandestine marriage‚ in the Lodge‚ between the Prince of Wales and her favourite granddaughter‚ Diana Spencer. The Marlboroughs had followed ‘Dutch William’s’ boyhood friend William Bentinck‚ first Earl of Portland‚ who had created formal gardens in the Dutch style; after them came George II’s son‚ the Duke of Cumberland. The victor of Culloden‚ ‘Butcher’ Cumberland landscaped the park‚ creating Great Meadow Pond and Virginia Water‚ and revived racing at Ascot. George III added Gothic embellishments to the house‚ and George IV us…

• 10” x 7½”
• [XV] 192 pages.
• Index.
• Bibliography.
• ISBN: 0850336880
• Dustwrapper over Red boards‚ with Gilt titling to the Spine.
• Packed Weight: 1.40 Kg.

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