The dark past of William and Kate’s ‘forever home’: Slavery links, an equerry who blew his brains out and a royal break-up…

Last week, William and Kate will move with three children from Adameide Cottage, who were very pokey excavations in Windsor Great Park.

Indeed, it was said that they would be so devoted, even ‘home forever’.

But how much did the couple endeavor when they came to the history of the 18th century stakes before they agreed to move?

Not too much, it appears. Because I can reveal that Forest Lodge is a house full of dark secrets.

To discover what these are, Lodge’s King George IV.

Lodge’s gardens have an equally distinguished genealogy because they are organized by Humphry Reprton, who is considered the successor of Talent Brown, the father of the famous British landscape garden style.

Sir Jeffry was initially taken from his creation, which was initially adorned with an Indian -style dome, he thought of doing his own house. Instead, the Georgian Mansion was purchased by a London -based Scot, Spencer Mackay.

Unlike Wyatville, who added his trade to his homeland, Mackay won his money from the coffee and rum plantations in South America in the late 18th century and early 19th century.

In 1823, in the Guyan region of Demera, there was a slave rebellion triggered by the wrong belief that the British Parliament had eliminated slavery and that their freedom was blocked by the colonial rulers. In Picture: A scene containing actor Levar Burton as a slave of the mini series of the 1970s

Many other Forest Lodge tenants came with a story to tell and went – but none of them were as famous as the new residents, the future king and queen (in the picture).

Mackay’s priority was to make as much profit from the territory of a world as much as possible and bought hundreds of slaves for this purpose.

They had terrible privatizations from West Africa during their long journeys by sea, and when they arrived in Guyana, the worse horror awaited them.

Rahtish whip was widespread because plantation managers tried to force the maximum amount of labor from exhausted slaves.

In 1823, in the Guyan region of Demera, there was a slave rebellion triggered by the wrong belief that the British Parliament had eliminated slavery and that their freedom was blocked by the colonial rulers.

Between 9,000 and 12,000 slaves joined the uprising, one of the dozens of Mackay’s plantations. But it was proven to be short -lived. In just two days, the rebellion was mercilessly crushed.

Mackay’s real estate manager later gave an extraordinary incident account to his boss. Fifty to face [slaves] For a while, there was no claim to the rear lands near Maaja, but especially from the beehive and Greenfield properties, the manager had made a lot of effort.

‘Greenfield [slaves] Returning on condition that the manager is discharged and the other [slave]-Drivers were appointed, the rest [slaves] He was occupied in the forest and a large number of cattle. ‘

A group of escaping from plantation opened the men hunting them, and the real estate manager wrote.

Forest Lodge went to the old school wolf and the 14th Lord Napier Scottish Grandee. After the service in the Scottish guards, Napier joined the Royal Court in 1975 to become a special secretary of Princess Margaret (in the picture, on the left)

Experienced royal observers meant that they fully expressed William and Kate’s Forest Lodge as ‘home forever’

Lewis Carroll’s children’s novel Alice Liddell, the inspiration of the Land of Wonderland, visited the house during the time it was occupied by her uncle Colonel Augustus Liddell, and the Assistant Ranger of the Great Park of the Great Park to Queen Victoria.

‘Young Van Baerle and another young man on the property, he had repeatedly tried to bring the runs home, and partially succeeded.

But finally, these young men were trapped by a party of the slaves of properties who did not disappear themselves, and the most brutal killed in this case.

“ `Bodies were injured and their heads and limbs moved around the camp victory. Now every attempt is made to send a challenging white and Indians party with an effort to destroy them. ‘

In the process of quitting the rebellion, up to 500 slaves were killed.

And after the uprising was defeated, 27 more slaves were carried out on the orders of the British governor John Murray, their bodies were left to rot in the sun for months, and a deterrent to other slaves who thought of a struggle for freedom.

Despite these butchers, when slavery was removed in 1834, Mackay was compensated for the loss of 10 million £ 10 million at present prices.

Nobody knows how many people died at the clock, but when he got the money, he moved to a smart London residence on Holly Grove House (Forest Lodge’s original name) Harley Street.

If this date, William does not know this, Kate may come with an unpleasant reminder of the troubled West Indian Islands tour they undertake in March 2022.

Between 9,000 and 12,000 slave joined the Demerarrise, dozens of Mackay’s plantations

The Kingston Jamaica Capital region was photographed with local children while pushing the royal couple’s hands from the chain connection fence during a stop at Trench Town, the King of Reggae Bob Marley. For some eyes, the optics seemed to greet people in a prison camp.

In the midst of the ongoing debate on slavery compensation, he was criticized as a ‘PR wrong step’ and a ‘white-default parody’, and he is increasingly calling for vocal Jamaica to throw the monarchist yoke.

Indeed, the prime minister of the island told the royal couple in a strange meeting that the country would be a republic, and a government committee in the Bahamas called on the royals to ‘publish a full and official apology for their crimes against humanity’.

Slavery is not the only story of Holly Grove, which was re -called Forest Lodge in the 1930s. Alice Liddell, the inspiration of Lewis Carroll’s children’s novel Alice, visited the house during her time by his uncle Colonel Augustus Liddell, and Victoria’s groom and Windsor Great Park Ranger.

After Sir Malcolm Murray retired in 1936 as an assistant Ranger, VIII. At the request of Edward, Equerry has long been allowed to Sir John Airda. Aird, a deaned soldier and baronet, was once described by King Leopold, one of the Belgians, as the ‘perfect cartoon of the British gentleman’. But it was not a filled shirt.

In 1923, the brother of the Duke of Aird, Edward and Gloucester, the Transatlantic Kenya Aviator Berryl Markham shared the goodness of the bedroom, he was with the Wales Prince in the happy valley of Kenya.

AIRD was also accompanied in 1931 in the official round of South America, where much more energy was separated from the lane section behind the bedroom doors. Once there was a wild line in it – something he couldn’t control, Aird said Airda once.

Sir John is also the man who can say that he accidentally triggered the 1936 lottery crisis. As a result, in the summer, he was the one who organized the regulation of Yacht Nahlin, who toured the world’s attention to the secret relationship between King and Wallis Simpson.

The rest of the Kate and the family, after folding in Adelaide Cottage during cancer treatment, a new start is time.

The original plan was the fact that the Royal Party was receiving a castle in the south of France, which would be a measure of privacy. However, Aird’s charter can be discussed by changing the course of history.

While AIRD turned blindly at the royal bed jumping activities, it remained a strict courier in favor of the public decor. And when a pair of trunks were dismissed on a public trip on a trip to Nahlin, when the king looked naked, he threw it into the towel. “ This was my last crusade, ” he said. Shortly after the shooting watched.

Unlike the others who were close to Edward stained with subtraction, AirD remained in favor of the royal and both King VI.

In 1973, he told his wife, who was diagnosed with terminal bladder cancer, to bring him a locked referral. There was an old service pistol in it. In Forest Lodge’s bedroom, Sir John Airdi killed himself. He thought it was a way of exit the gentleman. He was 75 years old.

Many thought Forest Lodge was sentenced to become the house of Princess Anne, who married Captain Mark Phillips a week before Aird’s suicide, but gave her the endless more elegant Gatcombe Park in Gloucestershire.

As a result, Forest Lodge went to the old school wolf and the 14th Lord Napier Scottish Grandee. After serving the Scottish guards, Napier joined the Royal Court, which was the special secretary of Princess Margaret in 1975.

Between Princess and her husband Lord Snowdon, he was a modest Napier, who was called to judge as he descended into a beverage, bad behavior and angry accusation.

Finally, when things came to a head at the end of 1975, the coup was Napier, who was assigned to surrender Grace. Snowdon’s biography, as Anne de Courcy remembered: on November 26, 1975, Margaret said Nigel Napier could not accompany Tony to any public participation in the future or that he would not be informed about any special invitation or activity. Drawbridge was finally pulled up. ‘

Many other Forest Lodge Tenant came and each went with a story to tell – but none of them were as famous as the new residents, the future king and queen.

Experienced observers mean that William and Kate defined Forest Lodge as ‘home forever’, but everyone certainly may accept that there is a new starting time after folding in Adelaide Cottage during the cancer treatment of Kate and the rest of the family.