Coppins
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Coppins is a country house north of the village of Iver in Buckinghamshire, England. Located only seven miles from Windsor Castle, it was formerly a home to many members of the British royal family, including Princess Victoria, Prince George, Duke of Kent and Princess Marina, and their son Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.
History
[edit]The house was originally a mid-nineteenth-century farmhouse built by John Mitchell, who arranged theatre visits for Queen Victoria and her son, the Prince of Wales. The house was substantially altered for Princess Victoria, who moved there after the death in 1925 of her mother, Queen Alexandra.
Princess Victoria left Coppins to her nephew Prince George, Duke of Kent, when she died in 1935. It was sold the home of two generations of the Kent family.[1]
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was a regular visitor to Coppins during school holidays while at Gordonstoun (1937–39) and Dartmouth Naval College (1939–40), and later when visiting with Princess Elizabeth. Prince George's wife, Princess Marina, was Prince Philip's paternal first cousin.
Prince Michael of Kent was born there on 4 July 1942. In 1944, Princess Marina's first cousin King George II of Greece also stayed at Coppins.[2] Coppins was sold by Prince Michael in 1972 with 236 acres of land to Commander Eli Gottlieb for an amount that was reported to be over £400,000.[3] Coppins was put up for sale again in April 1977 for £500,000, with 13 acres of gardens.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ McKenzie, Porter (15 January 1951). "The World's Most Glamorous Widow". MacLean's. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
- ^ Kent 2023, p. 44.
- ^ Ely, Gerald (7 February 1975). "Residential Property". The Times. No. 59314. p. 23. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
- ^ "News in Brief". The Times. No. 59987. 21 April 1977. p. 3. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
Kent, HRH The Duke of (2023-04-27). A Royal Life. Hodder Paperbacks. ISBN 978-1-5293-8973-9.