Frogmore Cottage is set to be stripped back to its pre-Prince Harry and Meghan days, with the Crown reportedly planning to remove the multi-million-dollar renovations the couple made during their short time there.
According to a source who spoke to The Sun, the property has “been empty for three years”.
“Even Andrew [Mountbatten-Windsor] thought it wasn’t good enough for him to move in,” they claimed.
Harry and Meghan spent their newlywed days in Frogmore Cottage, but those memories will now be stripped. (Netflix)
“Maybe if they get rid of any trace of Harry and Meghan, then someone within the royal household will fancy it.”
Soon after receiving the property as a wedding gift from the late Queen Elizabeth in 2018, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex got to work renovating the place to their liking.
They made what was originally two detached houses into a single large family property, which came to a total of $US2.8 million (approx. $3.9 million)
But they only stayed for a short time, leaving the royal family and Frogmore in 2020 for the sunny shores of California.
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The royal residence sits on the Home Park Estate in Windsor and has been “empty for three years”. (PA Images via Getty Images)
There, they bought a $US14 million ($19.6 million) mansion in Montecito, where they live with their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
In 2023, when Harry’s father King Charles officially became the reigning monarch, they were forced to officially vacate the property.
The couple reportedly paid $US3.3 million ($4.6 million) in total for the home, including the rent and the renovations, paid back to the royal family, with the property now being owned by the Crown Estate.
The Crown Estate is a collection of lands belonging to the British monarch but is not part of the monarch’s private land holdings.
Any money raised through rent goes back to the Estate and helps fund the monarchy.
Anyone who lives in a home on the Crown Estate, royal or otherwise, is expected to pay rent unless they are offered it by a monarch as a ‘grace-and-favour-home’.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was in talks to take over the property after his eviction from Royal Lodge. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Frogmore Cottage is within Home Park, a 2.65 square-kilometre royal park that forms the private grounds of Windsor Castle, and is close to the much larger and grander Frogmore House – a royal retreat that dates back to the 1500s.
The residence was built in 1801 on the orders of Queen Charlotte, the wife of King George III, as a country retreat for herself and two of her unmarried daughters, Princess Sophia and Princess Amelia.
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