Royal Mulls Reversing £2.4 million Frogmore Renovation

The Royal Household is exploring plans to reverse the multi-million pound renovations made to Frogmore Cottage, the former Windsor home of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The Grade II-listed property within Windsor Castle's Home Park has sat empty for three years, and assessments are now underway to determine if it can be subdivided back into multiple residential units.

The late Queen Elizabeth II gifted the cottage to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle following their 2018 wedding. At that time, the property consisted of five separate residential units in poor condition. A renovation project, funded initially by the Sovereign Grant, converted these into a single-family home at a reported cost of 2.4 million pounds. The couple moved into the refurbished cottage in the spring of 2019, ahead of the birth of their son, Archie.

The Sussexes occupied the property for approximately ten months before stepping back from their roles as senior working royals and relocating to North America in early 2020. They continued to use Frogmore Cottage as their U.K. base and fully repaid the renovation costs to the Sovereign Grant. In early 2023, weeks after the publication of Prince Harry's memoir,...