33-656: Frogmore is an estate within the Home Park , adjoining Windsor Castle , in Berkshire , England. It comprises 33 acres (130,000 m), of primarily private gardens managed by the Crown Estate . It is the location of Frogmore House , a royal retreat, and Frogmore Cottage . The name derives from the preponderance of frogs which have always lived in this low-lying and marshy area near the River Thames . This area
66-514: A bird each fond endearment tries / To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, / He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, / ALLURED TO BRIGHTER WORLDS, AND LED THE WAY. "(caps. added, as in the inscription) Martin Greenwood's biographical article mentions that this sculpture, which had been completed for the Queen, is also known as 'The Parting'. Theed had shown more than eighty works at
99-466: A highly successful professional practice. He is known to have married, assumed to be around this time, a woman called Mary and had a son Edward, both listed in the 1881 census. In 1851 he displayed three pieces at the Great Exhibition , the most notable a marble of The Prodigal's Return , a life-size piece, elaborately carved. From London he made further pieces for the prince consort, including
132-618: A series of mythological reliefs for the reception rooms of Buckingham Palace . Another notable piece for the Royal Family was a series of twelve bas-reliefs illustrating scenes from Tudor history, this time in bronze, which were made for the Prince's chamber in the Palace of Westminster . The major aspect of Theed's production, however, was portraiture, with which he received commissions for major commemorative statues. Most notably are: For
165-474: A special resting place for them both, instead of the two of them being buried in one of the traditional resting places of British Royalty, such as Westminster Abbey or St. George's Chapel, Windsor . The mausoleum for the Queen's mother was being constructed at Frogmore in 1861 when Prince Albert died in December of the same year. Within a few days of his death, proposals for the mausoleum were being drawn up by
198-620: Is a monument to Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt (1843–1878), Victoria's second daughter, who died of diphtheria shortly after her youngest daughter May (1874–1878). In the centre of the chapel is a monument to Edward, Duke of Kent , Victoria's father. He died in 1820 and is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor. One of the sculptures is of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in Saxon Dress, commissioned after Prince Albert's death and executed by William Theed (1804–91). It
231-485: Is a quotation from The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith . The inscription on the plinth alludes to the poet's lament for the passing of the imagined village of 'Sweet Auburn'. The building has been closed to the public since 2007 because it is structurally unsound. The foundations are waterlogged, and the lower elements of the building are disintegrating. In February 2018, the Royal Household announced it
264-684: Is divided from the main Windsor Great Park by the busy Albert Road (A308) towards Old Windsor . It is the private estate of the castle . As well as beautiful parkland , gardens and avenues of fine trees, it contains farmland ( cattle grazing and winter feed), a golf course, a bowling green (for the Royal Household Bowling Club), a cricket field (for the Royal Household Cricket Club ), tennis courts (Windsor Home Park Lawn Tennis Club),
297-488: Is octagonal with an onion dome with round arches and deep eaves. It is a Grade II listed structure . Teulon’s Teahouse also has a Grade II listing while James Wyatt’s nearby Gothic Ruin is designated Grade II*. The house and gardens are usually open to the public on about six days each year, usually around Easter and the August Bank Holiday. The Royal Burial Ground may be viewed from around its perimeter on
330-758: Is part of the local flood plain . Its large landscaped gardens are Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens . Part of the gardens of the estate are set aside as burial places for members of the British royal family : the Royal Mausoleum (containing the tomb of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert ); the Royal Burial Ground ; and the Duchess of Kent's Mausoleum (the burial place of Queen Victoria's mother ). Frogmore House
363-650: The Duke of Windsor , who reigned as King Edward VIII before abdication; and his wife Wallis . Many members of the families of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and of the Marquess of Cambridge are also buried there. Also in the Burial Ground is the cenotaph of Queen Maria of Yugoslavia , a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and wife of King Aleksandar I of Yugoslavia . Having lived in exile in London, she
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#1732776533502396-656: The Picturesque , clearly influenced the design. In 1840, Frogmore was inherited by the Duchess of Kent and, following her death in 1861, by her daughter, Queen Victoria . The estate became a favoured, almost sacred, retreat; after burying her mother in a mausoleum overlooking the lake, the Queen commissioned another, the Royal Mausoleum , for her husband Albert, Prince Consort and for herself, after Albert’s death in 1861. During her long widowhood, when she rarely visited London, Victoria spent much of her time at Windsor and at Frogmore. She undertook further building work in
429-765: The Royal Family . Theed was born in Trentham, Staffordshire . Initially trained by his father, Theed the younger worked for several years in the studio of EH Baily the sculptor, and on 15 January 1820 was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools . In 1826 he went to Rome. In Rome, Theed is believed to have studied under the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen and Italian Pietro Tenerani , as well as John Gibson and Richard James Wyatt . Here he worked in marble creating statues and busts, including those for
462-628: The Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore . The descriptive label beside the copy in the National Portrait Gallery reads: On the plinth of Theed's original in the Royal Collection is a single line (without attribution) from the poem ' The Deserted Village ' by Oliver Goldsmith (l.170): " ...Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, / And e'en his failings lean'd to Virtue's side; / But in his duty prompt at every call, / He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for all. / And, as
495-731: The Duke of Lucca and the Prince and Princess of Capua. In 1844–5, after nearly 20 years in Rome, he received a commission from Prince Albert, then the prince consort, who had asked John Gibson (now a close friend of Theed) to send designs for statues to be placed in Osborne House. Two designs by Theed were accepted, Narcissus at the Fountain and Psyche Lamenting the Loss of Cupid both in marble. Theed returned to London in 1848 and soon established
528-490: The Royal Family, he produced busts of: Having been appointed by Queen Victoria to take the death mask of the prince in 1861, he went on to produce several notable memorial statues including those at Balmoral Castle . He also executed a sculpture of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, of which a copy is in the National Portrait Gallery, London while the original is retained in the Royal Collection at
561-564: The days that the gardens are open to the public. The Duchess of Kent's mausoleum may also be viewed externally, but is never open to the public. Home Park, Windsor The Home Park , previously known as the Little Park (and originally Lydecroft Park ), is a 2.65 km royal park near Windsor, Berkshire , administered by the Crown Estate of the United Kingdom. It is the private grounds of Windsor Castle . It lies mainly on
594-605: The eastern side of the castle in the former civil parish of Windsor in the English county of Berkshire . The park includes the Frogmore estate, and several private organisations related to the estate have facilities in the park. To the Home Park's south is the Windsor Great Park , largely open to the public. Home Park is listed Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Historic England . The Home Park
627-554: The gardens, employing Samuel Sanders Teulon to construct a teahouse , and engaging Thomas Willement to redecorate the Gothic Ruin, originally designed by Wyatt and Princess Elizabeth . In this setting Victoria placed the Indian Kiosk , and in her later years would often undertake correspondence in a tent set up nearby, attended by her Indian servant Abdul Karim . In 1900 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
660-501: The grounds. Originally in the manor of Orton and not a royal possession, part of the area was first emparked (for deer hunting ) by King Edward III in 1368 and expansion continued over many centuries. Areas of the Home Park are mentioned in Shakespeare 's Merry Wives of Windsor and show that the main road to Datchet then ran through it. The famous Herne's Oak stood nearby. Oliver Cromwell trained his New Model Army in
693-521: The latter years of her life, the Duchess lived in Frogmore House and in the 1850s, construction began on a beautiful domed 'temple' in the grounds of the estate. The top portion of the finished building was intended to serve as a summer-house for the Duchess during her lifetime, while the lower level was destined as her final resting place. The Duchess died at Frogmore House on 16 March 1861 before
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#1732776533502726-399: The park. 51°29′06″N 0°35′42″W / 51.485°N 0.595°W / 51.485; -0.595 William Theed William Theed (1804 – 9 September 1891), also known as William Theed the younger , was a British sculptor, the son of the sculptor and painter William Theed the elder (1764–1817). He specialised in portraiture, and his services were extensively used by
759-650: The park. George III removed the deer in 1785. The modern boundaries of the park were set by the Windsor Improvement Act 1846 and the Windsor Castle Act 1848 , when the road to Datchet through the park was closed and public access denied. Frogmore House and gardens alone are open to the general public on a few specific days in the spring and summer. The Royal Windsor Horse Show and the Windsor Rose Show also take place within
792-574: The playing fields of St George's School , Adelaide Cottage (on the site of the old Keeper's Lodge) and the Frogmore Estate , including Frogmore House , and gardens with Frogmore Cottage and a large lake, the Royal Mausoleum and the Royal Burial Ground . Also attached are Shaw Farm , the former Prince Consort 's Home Farm and the Windsor Farm Shop. The grave of Dash , the favourite spaniel of Queen Victoria , can be found on
825-459: The roof is covered with Australian copper. The internal decoration is in the style of Albert's favourite painter, Raphael , an example of Victoriana at its most opulent. The interior walls are mainly faced in Portuguese red marble, a gift from King Luis I of Portugal , a cousin of both Victoria and Albert, and are inlaid with other marbles from around the world. The monumental tomb itself
858-484: The same designers involved in the Duchess of Kent's Mausoleum: Professor Gruner and A. J. Humbert . Work commenced in March 1862. The dome was made by October and the building was consecrated in December 1862, although the decoration was not finished until August 1871. The building is in the form of a Greek cross . The exterior was inspired by Italian Romanesque buildings, the walls are of granite and Portland stone and
891-428: The summer-house was completed so the upper chamber became part of the mausoleum and now contains a statue of the Duchess by William Theed (1864). The second mausoleum in the grounds of Frogmore, just a short distance from the Duchess of Kent's Mausoleum, is the much larger Royal Mausoleum, the burial place of Queen Victoria and her consort, Prince Albert . Queen Victoria and her husband had long intended to construct
924-589: Was born at Frogmore House. On the estate near the House is Frogmore Cottage , built for Queen Charlotte around 1801. Frogmore Gardens are Grade I listed . The first of two mausoleums within the Frogmore Gardens is the burial place of Queen Victoria's mother, Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld , the Duchess of Kent. The Mausoleum was designed by the architect A J Humbert , to a concept design by Prince Albert's favourite artist, Professor Ludwig Gruner . In
957-482: Was built in the 1680s and in 1792 the house and estate were bought by George III for his wife Queen Charlotte , although the land had formed part of the Windsor royal hunting ground since the reign of Henry VIII . Charlotte engaged James Wyatt to redesign the house and sought the advice of her Vice-Chamberlain, William Price, regarding the redevelopment of the grounds. Price’s brother Uvedale , an early exponent of
990-693: Was buried here from 1961 until April 2013, when her remains were exhumed and returned to Oplenac , Serbia. Various other structures stand in the grounds including the Gothic Ruin (1793), Queen Victoria's Teahouse (a brick pavilion of 1869) and the Indian Kiosk . Constructed of marble, the kiosk was taken from the Qaisar Bagh in Lucknow following the looting of the city, by the Viceroy of India , Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning in 1858. The kiosk
1023-404: Was designed by Baron Carlo Marochetti . It features recumbent marble effigies of the Queen and Prince Albert. The sarcophagus was made from a single piece of flawless grey Aberdeen granite . The Queen's effigy was made at the same time, but was not put in the mausoleum until after her funeral. Only Victoria and Albert are interred there, but the mausoleum contains other memorials. Among those
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1056-429: Was undertaking repair work on the mausoleum; the work is expected to be complete by 2023. Since its inauguration in 1928, most members of the royal family, except for Kings and Queens, have been interred in the Royal Burial Ground , a cemetery behind Queen Victoria's mausoleum. Among those buried there are Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught , and Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester , as well as Prince George, Duke of Kent ;
1089-664: Was unveiled on 20 May 1867 in Windsor Castle, and was moved to the Royal Mausoleum in 1938. The plaster model, which was exhibited in 1868 at the Royal Academy of Arts , is on loan from the Royal Collection to the National Portrait Gallery, London . Queen Victoria recorded in her diary that the idea for it came from Victoria, Princess Royal (her eldest child) and that the inscription on the plinth
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