SANDRINGHAM 



the Wash, and the North Sea to the shores ot 

 Denmark, she was enchanted and decided at 

 once it should be their future home. Recon- 

 struction was undertaken, costing 70,000, for 

 the house was entirely rebuilt ; it was com- 

 pleted in 1 870. The object aimed at was sim- 

 plicity without and comfort within. The Prin- 

 cess had her petit trianon, her English garden 

 bordering one lake, while wilder scenery, 

 cascades and caverns edged upon the other. 

 There also was the vegetable garden, with its 

 fruit trees, the farm, full of cows of all breeds, 

 the white marble dairy with a central fountain 

 representing a swan in porcelain ; above, the 

 room reserved for the Princess's tea, the Swiss 

 cottage, on the peacock-blue walls of which 

 are shown the Rose of England, the Thistle of 

 Scotland, the Shamrock of Ireland, and " Ich 

 Dien " surmounted with the three plumes. 

 Three miles from the Norwich Gate, a beauti- 

 ful wrought iron one presented to the Prince 

 on his marriage by the town of Norwich, the 

 village of Wolferton and the new station soon 

 arose. The domain consists of five villages, 

 Dersingham, Wolferton, W. Newton, Sand- 



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