WIKI Frogmore Cottage is a Grade II listed house in the grounds of Frogmore House built in 1801 at the direction of Queen Charlotte on the Frogmore Estate, part of Home Park, Windsor, Berkshire, England. It is currently the home of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their son Archie.
The cottage was originally known as Double Garden Cottage and was listed in Queen Charlotte's1801 accounts for her garden as having been built for £450 by a Mr. Bowen.[3]Queen Victoriahad breakfast at the cottage on 28 June 1875 and noted an "immense number of little frogs" which she found "quite disgusting".[4] The cottage has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since October 1975.
The cottage was a retreat for Queen Charlotte and her unmarried daughters. The theologian Henry James Sr. and his family lived at the cottage in the 1840s.[7] A personal secretary of Victoria's, Abdul Karim, moved to Frogmore Cottage in 1897 with his wife and father.Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia in exile from her native Russia stayed there in the 1920s.
In the early 21st century the cottage was a series of five separate units housing Windsor estate workers.[11] In 2019, the house was converted to serve again as a 10-bedroom, single-family home, at a reported cost from the Sovereign Grant of £2.4 million.[12][13] The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who had earlier held their wedding reception at nearby Frogmore House, moved from Nottingham Cottage to Frogmore Cottage in spring 2019, before the birth of their first child.[14][15]