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SURREY HOME FOR
- PRINCESS
LONDON, Wednesday. ¦.
j Buckingham Palace has confirmed
that Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh ? have leased Windlesham Moor, Surrey, and will take up. residence there in "due
course".
Reutcr says that the announce rrient confirms "The Daily Mail" re 'port on October 25, that the Royal pair selected Windlesham Moor after the fire on August 30 had destroyed the future home which thc King had granted at Sunninghill Park;
Windlesham Moor is a beautiful Surrey estate of 50 acres. The own- er is Mrs. Warwick Bryant, former- ly Mrs. Philip Hill, widow of a mil. ¦lionaire financier. She is at present lin South Africa. '¦'.,'
| ? Reuters. Court correspondent says jit is understood that Elizabeth and ; the Duke will use Windlesham Moor
as a week-end home, rather than ai 'permanent residence, because the i I Duke's duties at the Admiralty keep !
.him in London during the week. '?'