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The Elizabethan era saw growing prosperity, and contemporaries remarked on the pace of secular building among the well-off. The somewhat tentative influence of Renaissance architecture is mainly seen in the great houses of courtiers, but lower down the social scale large numbers of sizeable and increasingly comfortable houses were built in developing vernacular styles by farmers and townspeople.
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Villa Guardamangia (Italian – 'look' and 'eat'), formerly known as Casa Medina [1] [2] and sometimes referred to as Casa Guardamangia, [3] is a 16,791 square feet (1,559.9 m 2) townhouse in Gwardamanġa, Pietà, Malta, which served as the residence of Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh (later Queen Elizabeth II), and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, between 1949 and 1951, while Philip ...
Windlesham Moor is a country house and, for a time in the 20th century a royal residence, at Windlesham in the English county of Surrey.In its capacity as a royal residence, it was, for nearly two years in the late 1940s, the home of Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth and her husband Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Birch Hall boasts 7 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms and 5 living spaces -- including a gorgeous "summer room." It has charm the charm of its 1740 origins but also modern updates for comfortable living in ...
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The State Rooms, filled with a collection acquired by generations of the Sidney family. The West Solar, or State Dining Room, part of the medieval building, contains a collection of family portraits, furniture and porcelain. The Queen Elizabeth Room, named after Queen Elizabeth I, with its display of early upholstered furniture. The Tapestry Room
You can pay a visit to the Royal Yacht ‘Britannia’—the one place Queen Elizabeth II could “truly relax.” ...