Sandrigham house
George VI later had it enlarged and turned into a duck pond.
Like many villages, towns and communities across Britain, the community of the estate
suffered its own wartime tragedy. The Sandringham Company was wiped out in the Battle of
Gallipoli in August 1915. Trapped in a field which suddenly burst into flames, possibly due to
a stray shell, the entire company was killed. In 1920 King George V, Queen Alexandra and
Queen Mary unveiled a cross and tablet on the greensward outside Sandringham Church,
bearing the names of the fallen. King George V's reign also saw the birth of a new Christmas
tradition at Sandringham. The first Christmas broadcast to the Empire was made live on
Christmas Day, 1932, from Sandringham's 'business-room'. History was made again in 1957
when The Queen made her first televised broadcast live on Christmas Day from
Sandringham's library.
King George V died at Sandringham on 20 January 1936, and Sandringham passed to his
eldest son
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