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Rudolph said:
Sandringham is getting a new lead roof

A new lead roof for Sandringham? That'll cost a royal mint, Your Majesty! The Queen plans to spend £500,000 of her own money on repairs - after the taxpayer funded £2.4m work on Harry and Meghan's Frogmore Cottage
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The article is making a false comparison between privately owned Sandringham & Crown Estate owned Frogmore Cottage. It's also making a false comparison between the Queen paying for her own repairs and the taxpayer paying for Harry & Meghan's.

The article's coverage of Harry & Meghan is twice as long as the coverage of Sandringham, despite them having nothing to do with Sandringham so the article is actually using the Sandringham repairs as another opportunity to reprint criticisms of money spent on Frogmore Cottage.
 
Rudolph said:
Sandringham is getting a new lead roof

A new lead roof for Sandringham? That'll cost a royal mint, Your Majesty! The Queen plans to spend £500,000 of her own money on repairs - after the taxpayer funded £2.4m work on Harry and Meghan's Frogmore Cottage
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Well, if it wasn't touched since 1870, it's time for some repairs :lol:

I have to say, Sandringham might be my personal favourite, amazing gardens, jacobethan architecture, simply amazing.

Also, maybe the discussion about the cost of Frogmore Cottage renovation should be in a different thread - it has nothing to do with beautiful Sandringham.
 
Drive-in cinema on Queen Elizabeth's Sandringham estate

According to The Daily Nonpareil, Sandringham estate is hosting a drive-in cinema in September, costing £32.50 per car.

https://nonpareilonline.com/people/...cle_09d1b20a-f440-55a7-9b2c-bea9ac33c055.html

Other papers has also picked up on it

Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/20...-drive-in-queen-elizabeths-sandringham-estate


I did check the official Sandringham Estate website to verify. The dates and movies includes:

FRIDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER
5pm: 1917

9pm: Rocketman

SATURDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER
1pm: Toy Story

5pm: The Greatest Showman

9pm: Bohemian Rhapsody

SUNDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER
1pm: Moana

5pm: Grease

9pm: A Star is Born

https://sandringhamestate.co.uk/events
 
:previous: A great idea. Great way to give people a safe social distancing night out. And also to bring some people to the estate safely as well.

Drive in movies have become popular during covid here. In mall parkinglots and other areas with the space.
 
I was so very disappointed when drivein cinema's disappeared from our landscape. Such fun and eating popcorn and blaring the horn when something funny or un pc was shown. Smuggling your mate in via the boot. Remember that!! Nowadays most people use SVU's, not so easy for smuggling giggling bodies.
But in those good times political correctness wasn't even a term then.
Ahhh a glimpse of the good old days returning for a brief period.
 
Pictures of Sandringham Estate in Hello Magazine, including the Saloon, Dining room, Drawing Room and Gardens

https://www.hellomagazine.com/homes...ide-sandringham-house-queen-norfolk-estate/9/

Some of these images were take from the Sandringham Estates' instagram account (not verified)

Drawing Room: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCabAflj-2O/

Another view of Drawing Room (not in the article): https://www.instagram.com/p/B7rWUs7Dwo1/

Square Walled Garden: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_nREbwDjGQ/

Saloon (Ground level view): https://www.instagram.com/p/B-NTW4yDt4d/

Saloon (View from above, not in the article): https://www.instagram.com/p/B8DzqVgDo10/

Dining Room: https://www.instagram.com/p/B9ucmp-Dm0-/
 
I adore the english gardens, but frankly their palaces are all on the horrible side; even if the building as such is haveways nice - the interiors are tastless and uncomfortable.
 
The Leonard Cheshire Foundation, a charity that runs Park House (in the Sandringham Estate) is discontinuing the project and exiting its lease (of Park House). The decision happened after unexpected increased costs and limited fundraising opportunities due to COVID-19. The charity was launched after the Second World War by Group Capt Leonard Cheshire VC and aims to "provide effective and efficient community-based services to disabled people that respond to their preferences". Park House is also the birthplace of Diana, Princess of Wales.

A spokesperson for the Sandringham Estate has said:
“We will look for a new occupier and hope to find a use that generates similar benefits to the local community and the wider area.”

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/park-house-hotel-at-sandringham-closing-1-6916555
https://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/san...ilding-where-princess-diana-was-born-9128933/
 
The Queen has been given permission to build an adventure playground in the grounds of Sandringham Estate that I think would be open to the public. This would replace a smaller play area.

The Queen to build huge adventure playground at Sandringham
The play area, at the heart of the 20,000-acre Norfolk estate, will include swings, slides, a zipwire and raised walkways
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-f...-build-huge-adventure-playground-sandringham/

Queen can build a playground at Sandringham to delight her great-grandchildren
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...-to-delight-her-great-grandchildren-dwztrlpq0

I have edited my post.
 
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AC21091968 said:
The Queen has been given permission to build an adventure playground in the grounds of Sandringham Estate for her great-grandchildren. This would replace a smaller play area.

The Queen to build huge adventure playground at Sandringham
The play area, at the heart of the 20,000-acre Norfolk estate, will include swings, slides, a zipwire and raised walkways
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-f...-build-huge-adventure-playground-sandringham/

Queen can build a playground at Sandringham to delight her great-grandchildren
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...-to-delight-her-great-grandchildren-dwztrlpq0
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Um, I thought it was to be built in an area that the public are allowed into, for public use?
 
So really its not the queen but her estate management deciding to improve the outdoor play area for children.

There was a discussion earlier this year that a lot of the historic homes and such were investing in outdoor play areas to draw in more families. Sandringham is no different, though the main house is the queen's private home, the estate still very much functions as a business.

While I am sure the great-grandkids may enjoy when visiting, it is wrong to paint it as the queen deciding on it for her grandchildren, even if open to the public.
 
It would make a wonderful Christmas card scene
 
AC21091968 said:
Pictures of Sandringham Estate in Hello Magazine, including the Saloon, Dining room, Drawing Room and Gardens

https://www.hellomagazine.com/homes...ide-sandringham-house-queen-norfolk-estate/9/

Some of these images were take from the Sandringham Estates' instagram account (not verified)

Drawing Room: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCabAflj-2O/

Another view of Drawing Room (not in the article): https://www.instagram.com/p/B7rWUs7Dwo1/

Square Walled Garden: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_nREbwDjGQ/

Saloon (Ground level view): https://www.instagram.com/p/B-NTW4yDt4d/

Saloon (View from above, not in the article): https://www.instagram.com/p/B8DzqVgDo10/

Dining Room: https://www.instagram.com/p/B9ucmp-Dm0-/
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I'm surprised. I was actually expecting it to be uglier. Maybe the other parts are, but it seems like a very nice house.
 
Prinsara said:
I'm surprised. I was actually expecting it to be uglier. Maybe the other parts are, but it seems like a very nice house.
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It's always struck me as a very comfortable looking house. Almost cozy were it not for its great size.
 
I can see why if she weren't Sovereign, Elizabeth II would retire here and play country lady. The house is much more beautiful on the inside than its outward appearance sometimes suggests.
 
An Ard Ri said:
And always reminds me of Christmas!
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Yes indeed! And it's also definitely a let's stay in & get toasty by the fire with a book sort of house.?

tommy100 said:
I can see why if she weren't Sovereign, Elizabeth II would retire here and play country lady. The house is much more beautiful on the inside than its outward appearance sometimes suggests.
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Yes I agree. I'm not a fan of Norfolk (love hills!) but there is something appealing about the remoteness & low population.
 
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A look inside the church of St Mary Magdalene in Sandringham.

Its more richly decorated inside than I had thought, very beautiful.
 
I grew up in north Norfolk and have always thought that St Mary's was a pretty church. Quite dark in the winter though, small and cosy I suppose, which makes it the same as the House in many ways.

I do think that the exterior of Sandringham house is ugly, a typical mid-Victorian hodge podge of yearning back to the Elizabethan and other eras. IMO, the interior cosiness of Sandringham House comes from it always having been a very private dwelling, bought for Bertie Prince of Wales before his marriage and intended to be a genuine family home that would also be suitable for entertaining close kith and kin. I do wonder about the future of it though, but that's for another time.
 
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I will always associate St Mary Magdalene in Sandringham with Christmas!
 
It is a very pretty church, inside and out! I wonder what Prince Charles thinks of Sandringham. I can't see him selling off the property, but he might retain it and re-purpose. I do know he has fond memories of being at the beach in summer.
 
I think Charles has some fond memories of childhood spent there. I knew someone who took him on evening wildlife expeditions around the estate when he was a young teenager. However as an adult he seems very much more focused on Highgrove and Birkhall.

The estate remains a favourite of the royals for shooting so I don't think the estate will go. Not so sure about the house, though. Charles and Camilla enjoy hosting friends at Birkhall but in future the Scottish Question may loom up more and more and possibly the future of Sandringham house may rest on that.
 
Sandringham is William country base, so he is the one who will likely keep it going. It's all conjecture, but I have seen comments that Balmoral may be the estate most likely to be divested of or downsized.
 
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