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A grace-and-favour home is a residential property owned by a monarch, government, or other owner and leased rent-free to a person as part of the perquisites of their employment, or in gratitude for services rendered. [1] Usage of the term is chiefly British. [1]
Grace & Favour (known as Are You Being Served? Again! in the United States) is a British television sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC1 from 10 January 1992 to 8 February 1993. It served as a sequel series to Are You Being Served? , and was written by Are You Being Served? creators and writers Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft .
It was given to the National Trust by Lord Courtauld-Thomson in 1947 as a grace-and-favour country home for a senior member of the Government, usually a Secretary of State or Minister of the Crown. [3] [4] The Dorneywood Trust has the objective of 'maintaining the mansion house and gardens of Dorneywood'. [5]
Grace and favour Clarence House is the current London Residence for the King and Queen Kensington Palace: The Prince and Princess of Wales; The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester; Prince and Princess Michael of Kent; Also in part a Historic Royal Palace, otherwise, grace and favour: St James's Palace: The Princess Royal; The Duke and Duchess of ...
As a grace-and-favour property, the house has been frequently occupied by members of the British royal family, as well as staff and employees. Design and location
After the death of her husband George VI in 1952, the Queen Mother continued to use the house as one of her country retreats as a grace and favour residence until her death. The Queen Mother died at Royal Lodge on 30 March 2002, with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, and niece Margaret Rhodes, by her side. [5]
Group Captain Peter Townsend, equerry to King George VI, was given the property as a grace-and-favour residence in 1944. [8] [2] Townsend referred to the cottage as an "icebox" with only two radiators. [9] Simon Rhodes, the son of Queen Elizabeth II's cousin Margaret Rhodes, previously resided at the cottage. [2]
In 2019, it was provided to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex as a grace and favour home by Elizabeth II, [13] and converted into a four-bedroom-and-nursery single-family home at a reported cost of £2.4 million from the Sovereign Grant prior to the birth of their son, Archie, in May 2019.