Charity Begins at Home: The Saga of Royal Rent and Monarchs As Landlords

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Charity Begins at Home: The Saga of Royal Rent and Monarchs As Landlords
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From Prince Andrew to Meghan Markle, talk of the royal real estate merry-go-round has never seemed juicier.

The Duke of Kent died in 1820. But his widowed wife, Victoria, Duchess of Kent, continued to be a thorn in her royal landlord’s side. According tothe duchess petitioned King William IV that she and her daughter Victoria be moved from their downstairs apartments in Kensington Palace, away from “the underground sewers, where mushrooms grew on the ceilings and workers found corks, cats, dead seals, false teeth, and even corpses.

He said loudly to the Duchess of Kent that he knew she had taken apartments at Kensington “not only without his consent, but contrary to his commands” and that he neither understood nor would endure conduct so disrespectful to him.” He walked away from her, vowing to stymie her vulgar grasping for power.

her son in despair of “tearing oneself away from the old Home, here Marlborough House! that I feel will finish me!”Alexandra’s reluctance forced her exasperated husband to implore his wife’s friend the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz to convince her to move. The Grand Duchess wrote:

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