Queen Victoria’s Journals Data Web Site
A rising politician whose name appears is that of Reginald McKenna who was a Liberal minister in 1905 and became a loyal client of Lutyens. At Sandringham Bertie lavished money and attention developing a ‘perfect’ nation estate, which can nonetheless be admired now. There Lutyens constructed Overstrand Hall for Lord Hillingdon and The Pleasaunce for Lord Battersea. September 1936 had been a poor he said month for the royal family members October was to bring much more portents of the impending crisis. Edward VIII’s private secretary, Hardinge, was informed by the Press Association that Mrs Simpson’s divorce petition was to...