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Perfect for a 'slimmed-負かす/撃墜する 君主国'? Introducing the exquisite (but rather cramped) model cottage built 特に for the sixth birthday of Princess Elizabeth...

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Princess Beatrice calls it 'the most glamorous Wendy house ever,' and for more than 90 years it has been the playhouse for four 世代s of 王室の children.

‘Y Bwthyn Bach’ (the Little Cottage), a sixth birthday gift from the people of むちの跡s to the 未来 Elizabeth II is hidden away from 見解(をとる) on the south 味方する of Prince Andrew’s home, the 王室の 宿泊する, in Windsor 広大な/多数の/重要な Park.

Designed by architect Edmund Willmott, as a playhouse in the style of a Welsh-cottage, the gift showcased the 技術s of Welsh craftsmen at a time when the 採掘 communities of the valleys were 苦しむing more 失業 than any other part of Britain during the 不景気 of the 早期に Thirties.

Princess Elizabeth stands outside her own miniature house which stands in the grounds at the 王室の 宿泊する in Windsor 広大な/多数の/重要な Park

The 規模d-負かす/撃墜する 見解/翻訳/版 of a country house was 特に built for Princess Elizabeth for her sixth birthday. It was a 現在の from the people of むちの跡s

Princess Elizabeth and sister Princess Margaret Rose sit on the steps of Y Bwthyn Bach, their own miniature house

The two-thirds 規模 thatched cottage was built using 石/投石する left over from the construction of Llandough Hospital in the Vale of Glamorgan, which was 完全にするd in 1933. 

It was 24 feet long and eight feet 深い and was made up of four, 5ft-high rooms ? a kitchen and a ‘siamber fach’ or Little 議会 downstairs, with a bedroom and bathroom upstairs. 

The inside 塀で囲むs were cream coloured and the curtains and carpet were in matching blue.

The house has fully 機能(する)/行事ing hot and 冷淡な running water, a heated towel rail and electricity. 

It 含むd a wireless 始める,決める (完全にする with a licence) which could be tuned into overseas 駅/配置するs 同様に as a Magnet gas cooker, a fridge, and a washing machine with a mangle. There was even a working telephone.

The 未来 queen’s linen was embroidered with the 初期の ‘E’ and her miniature blue and gold 磁器 始める,決める was 陳列する,発揮するd in an oak dresser.

The princess’s grandmother, Queen Mary, spotted a 減ずるd sized oak 閣僚, on 陳列する,発揮する at the British 産業’s Fair at Olympia. 

Only 18 インチs high, it にもかかわらず 含む/封じ込めるd 172 pieces of Sheffield cutlery and silverware. The house also 含む/封じ込めるd a 完全にする 始める,決める of Beatrix Potter 調書をとる/予約するs, マリファナs and pans, food cans, brooms, a packet of Epsom salts and a portrait of the Duchess of York - mother of Princess Elizabeth - over the oak mantelpiece. 

The house also had its own 前線 garden with 減ずるd 規模 hedges and flower beds. There was also a kennel to house a real-life Welsh Terrier puppy called Lanto who (機の)カム with the cottage.

The house - which had been 建設するd in むちの跡s before 存在 輸送(する)d to Lodnon - was 現在のd to Elizabeth’s parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, during their visit to Greyfriars Hall, Cardiff, on 16 March 1932. 

Elizabeth was not with them since her parents 手配中の,お尋ね者 to keep it as a surprise birthday gift. 

The 重要なs were 手渡すd to the 王室の couple by schoolgirl ジーンズ Blake, daughter of plumber and engineer William Blake who helped to 建設する the cottage on に代わって of the 'Princess Elizabeth Model House 委員会'.

In 2012 the Mail on Sunday 跡をつけるd 負かす/撃墜する ジーンズ in Ontario, Canada, and she 解任するd: ‘It was luck that I was chosen really. 

‘I was a 類似の age Princess Elizabeth and my dad had 任命する/導入するd all the plumbing and electricity in the cottage and knew the architect who designed it.

‘The 最高潮の場面 for me was peddling 一連の会議、交渉/完成する in a toy car that was also 存在 given to Princess Elizabeth. It had a little space in the 支援する with a small puppy sitting in it that was another gift from the people of むちの跡s.

‘It was really difficult for adults, 特に men, to get into the house easily but the Duke of York ducked 負かす/撃墜する and had a look around. I can’t remember what I said to them, but I do remember they were impressed with the cottage.’

The 予定 of York with his daughters and their pet dogs outside the cottage. The Duchess looks out of the window

Princess Elizabeth playing with her dolls house in her miniature garden 大(公)使館員d to her miniature house in 1936

The Illustrated London News gave a 十分な account of the cottage, 含むing the 損失 原因(となる)d when it caught light on its 旅行 from むちの跡s to London

The Duchess of York was typically effusive about the gift 宣言するing: 

'It is 簡単に wonderful. Why I could play in it myself. I had no idea it was so big. I thought it was a doll’s house and I had a 広大な/多数の/重要な surprise when I 設立する that I could 現実に live in it myself.!'

The Duchess took 広大な/多数の/重要な delight in turning on the hot and 冷淡な water, switching on the electric lights and using the telephone.

The house (機の)カム with its own 始める,決める of 行為s and fortunately on 17 February 1932, a buildings 保険 政策 was also taken out in the 指名する of Princess Elizabeth of York. 

This 証明するd to be lucky since, when it was 存在 輸送(する)d on a low loader pulled by a steam engine, to take it to London for 陳列する,発揮する at the Daily Mail Ideal Home 展示, the thatch on the cottage caught 解雇する/砲火/射撃. 

Sixty パーセント of the cottage was 損失d 含むing the thatch and much of the 最高の,を越す 床に打ち倒す. 

The Daily Mail flew the architect, Edmund Willmott to London where he 監督するd a team of twenty Welsh craftsmen who worked day and night at Hammersmith to 回復する it in time to go on 陳列する,発揮する. The final cost for the 修理 was £1,100.

After Y Bwythn Bach 完全にする with Lanto and his kennel were 陳列する,発揮するd at Olympia, the princess and her sister Margaret were 結局 許すd to play with the cottage which was 築くd and fitted out by some of the same team of Welsh workmen at the 王室の 宿泊する. 

It gave them and their friends years of 楽しみ as one childhood playmate, Myra Butter, later 解任するd: 'Oh, how we loved it. It was wonderful, a charming little place. Princess Margaret’s 広大な/多数の/重要な thing was running up and 負かす/撃墜する the stairs pulling the plug on the little lavatory which worked.’

Grown-ups, who had to wait to be 問題/発行するd with an 招待 to visit, were いっそう少なく enthusiastic as the Queen Mother 解任するd at the time of her 90th birthday.

'You can imagine the children! I’ve had the most awful meals cooked in there ? horrors ? which you have to eat.'

The cottage featured has featured in 非常に/多数の TV 文書のs.

 In 1980 the Queen was shown watching anxiously as her three-year-old grandson Peter Phillips, ran around inside 注ぐing imaginary tea into cups and 船ing into the miniature grandfather clock. 

At the time, the 行為s had been 手渡すd to Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones, Princess Margaret’s daughter. 

In 2008 they were passed on to Princess Beatrice, who like her grandmother, was the 年上の of two princesses of York. Beatrice 監督するd a 復古/返還 計画(する), paid for by her father, which 含むd a new pale green and cream colour 計画/陰謀, new curtains and upholstery, a rewiring, and a re-thatched roof. The princess also 追加するd her own teddy 耐えるs to the downstairs sofa.

Talking to the 新聞記者/雑誌記者 Andrew Marr on the 文書の The Diamond Queen, she 明らかにする/漏らすd that the Queen was still a 正規の/正選手 訪問者 at the time and had been 協議するd about the 革新. 

A portrait of Princess Elizabeth in the tulip-filled garden of Y Bwthyn Bach (The Litttle House) 

Princess Elizabeth 持つ/拘留するing 手渡すs with her little sister Princess Margaret on the steps

The 王室の sisters standing at the windows of the cottage, which was carefully 割合d at two-thirds 規模

It was Prince Charles's turn to play in the cottage in 1954

Queen Elizabeth stands on the steps ot Y Bwthyn Bach with her first grandchild, Peter Phillips 

'She still likes to come 支援する and visit... Granny was very (疑いを)晴らす that for all the fabric she 手配中の,お尋ね者 very little designs. It's such a little house that she 手配中の,お尋ね者 little flowers and patterns.'

"Granny and her sister played here growing up. And we have been lucky enough to play here and cousins and second cousins. It's a real family 扱う/治療する.

It's beautiful. I've been lucky enough to play here and now Granny's a 広大な/多数の/重要な granny, so now Savannah can enjoy it too.'

Twelve years on from that interview her own daugh ter Sienna 同様に as her sister Eugenie’s sons Augustus and Ernest will be newest 世代 of 王室の children to enjoy the delights of ‘the most glamourous Wendy house ever.’

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Perfect for a 'slimmed-負かす/撃墜する? 君主国'? Introducing the exquisite (but rather cramped) model cottage built 特に for the sixth birthday of Princess Elizabeth...