3-039-091 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Claremont, Surrey, the residence of Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne, 1871. 'The park and mansion of Claremont, the property of the Crown, situated close to the village of Esher, sixteen miles from London, will for the present be occupied by the Marquis of Lorne and his bride, Princess Louise...The grounds are very agreeably laid out; they contain some fine trees, a lake five acres in extent...The house, designed by Brown, was built for Lord Clive, the famous conqueror of Bengal, just a hundred years since, at a cost of £100,000...The grounds were laid out by Kent, a fashionable landscape-gardener...After Clive's death, in 1771, his newly-built mansion passed through the hands of Lord Galway and Lord Tyrconnel to those of Mr. Charles Rose Ellis...The place was afterwards sold to the Crown, which settled it on Princess Charlotte, daughter of George IV., and her husband, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg, subsequently made King of the Belgians. It was here that the Princess died, in November, 1817...The place belonging to the late King Leopold for his life, it was put at the disposal, in 1848, of the exiled Royal family of France. King Louis Philippe and his Consort, the late Queen Marie Amélie, here ended their days'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.