Fort Belvedere, Surrey

About

Fort Belvedere (originally Shrubs Hill Tower) is a Grade II* listed country house on Shrubs Hill in Windsor Great Park, in Surrey, England. The fort was built as a folly by Henry Flitcroft in 1750–1755, and was later predominantly re-constructed by Jeffry Wyatville in a Gothic Revival style in the 1820s.

The fort was occupied by numerous members of the British royal family and associated personages from 1750 to 1976. From 1929, Fort Belvedere was the home of Edward, Prince of Wales, who greatly renovated the house and grounds, and it was where, after a constitutional crisis, and as Edward VIII, he signed his Instrument of Abdication in December 1936. The property remains part of the Crown Estate, is home to private tenants and is not open to the public.