Château de la Croë
The Château de la Croë is a large detached villa situated in eight hectares of grounds on the Cap d'Antibes peninsula of the Côte d'Azur, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southern France. The classical-style château was designed by architect Armand-Albert Rateau and built in 1927 for Sir Pomeroy Burton, general manager of Associated Newspapers.
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Winston and Clementine Churchill celebrated their fortieth wedding anniversary with the Windsors at the château in 1948.[4]
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thought was "more suited to the misty glens than the Côte d'Azur in July."[5] The Windsors' housekeeper later worked at Chatsworth, home of the Devonshires. The housekeeper told Deborah Devonshire that all the staff employed at the Château de la Croë by the Windsors were blonde haired,[5] however, in Edward Wessex’ 2015 documentary, “Whatever happened to the Windsors?”, there is film footage of staff with dark hair and dark skin filmed at the Chateau.
The Windsors left when their lease expired in the spring of 1949.[6]
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Chateau seized[edit]
As of April 2022, due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine the chateau has been seized by the French government because of sanctions against Russian oligarchs.[11]
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Coordinates: 43.54605°N 7.13413°E From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Château de la Croë in 2011Overview of the villa and groundsThe Château de la Croë is a large detached villa situated in eight hectares of grounds on the Cap d'Antibes peninsula of the Côte d'Azur, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southern France. The classical-style château was designed by architect Armand-Albert Rateau and built in 1927 for Sir Pomeroy Burton, general manager of Associated Newspapers. Ownership[edit] The Duke and Duchess of Windsor leased the château in May 1938, in addition to their Parisian mansion, after the Duke's abdication as King Edward VIII in 1936.[1] When the Germans invaded France they left it for Spain, on 19 June 1940.[2] The Windsors returned in 1946 to find that it had been used during the war as a billet for Italian and German troops. The building was in a poor state and there was abandoned military equipment on the building and in the garden.[3] The Duchess of Windsor subsequently renovated the house, leading the author Rebecca West to comment that "There are not many women who can pick up the keys to a rented house, raddled by long submission to temporary inmates, and make it look as if a family of cheerful good taste had been living there for two or three centuries."[1]
Winston and Clementine Churchill celebrated their fortieth wedding anniversary with the Windsors at the château in 1948.[4]
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