AUSTRIA 



Schloss %u Gmunden 



\ FTER THE WAR of 1866 the King 

 -^ *- and royal family of Hanover found a 

 hospitable reception in friendly Austria, and 

 took up their residence in Gmunden am 

 Traunsee, " die Perle des Salzkammergutes," 

 where, during the first years of their exile, they 

 occupied a small but beautifully situated villa. 

 After the death of King George V in Paris 

 in 1878, his Majesty's body was conveyed 

 to England and laid in the royal vault at 

 Windsor, and his successor, the present Duke of 

 Cumberland and of Brunswick and Liineburg, 

 resided, after his marriage with the Princess 

 Thyra of Denmark, in a larger villa, in which 

 five of their children were born. 



The Duke then decided to build a house more 

 suitable to the requirements of his family, and 



