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It was first known as King's Cottage, taking the name of the owner. Many other names followed, Woolbrook Cottage, Woolbrook Glen, and finally as The Royal Glen. The house was converted from the original into Regency splendour with delightful castellated pediments, tent-roofed veranda and Gothic casements complete with painted drip-moulds.
Jan 13, 2021 · The Duke and Duchess moved to Woolbrook Cottage, now the Royal Glen Hotel, in Sidmouth in 1918 arriving on Christmas Eve. It wasn’t an uneventful stay, someone attempted to assassinate the infant princess, guests at the Royal Glen can see the evidence that remains of this.
Description. An aquatint of a view of Woolbrook Cottage at Sidmouth, and surrounding landscape. With English inscription and verses below, lamenting the death of Edward, Duke of Kent in 1820.
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Description. An exterior view of the above, "the late residence of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke & Duchess of Kent". A church and some houses to right, by the sea. Anon. (1824)
Royal Glen formerly Woolbrook Cottage First named "King's Cottage" from a Mr. King who transformed a modest farmhouse into a Sidmouth Gothic Villa with Regency interiors. Purchased by mother of Gen. Baynes and renamed "Woolbridge Cottage" it was rented to the Duke of Kent.
Apr 12, 2024 · Edward, Duke of Kent (1767-1820), his wife, Victoria (or Victoire) of Saxe-Coburg, and the chubby little tot, settled down at Woolbrook Cottage, which is today the Royal Glen Hotel. It had once been incongruously King’s Cottage, named after a Mr. King (of Bath) who had gentrified an existing 16th-century farmhouse back in the 1770s ...
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