In 2008, John Martin Robinson took a tour of Sandringham House, the country house beloved and developed by generations of the royal family, including rooms not seen by the public. Photographs by Will Pryce for Country Life.
Over the front door in the hall at Sandringham is an inscription: ‘This house was built by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Alexandra his wife in the year of Our Lord 1870.’ The property had been bought for the future Edward VII on his…