In the latest episodes of Harry and Meghan's Netflix documentary, they have been filmed in one of the Queen's favourite spots that has a very strong Welsh connection. The couple appear to be pictured sitting on childrens' chairs drinking from a royal tea-set and laughing together in a Wendy house with a difference that stands close to the Royal Lodge within Windsor Great Park.
The giant playhouse was actually gifted to the young Princess Elizabeth for her sixth birthday by the people of Wales in 1932 and is known as Y Bwthyn Bach (The Little House). It was a place where she loved to play with her sister Margaret as children. According to the Royal Collection they "looked after it themselves and for many years it was their favourite toy".
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Through the years it has been played in by many generations of royal children and has featured in many family pictures. The two-thirds scale thatched cottage was designed by architect Edmund Willmott as a Welsh-cottage style playhouse.
It measures 24ft long, eight feet deep and with a ceiling height of five feet, and was built from materials left over from the redevelopment of Llandough Hospital on the outskirts of Cardiff.
The house has four rooms - a kitchen, living room, with an oak staircase leading to a bedroom and a bathroom. It has full running hot and cold water, electricity and a heated towel rail in the bathroom. The kitchen has a working fridge, gas cooker and a miniature blue and white porcelain dining and tea set. In the living room is a working miniature radio and a little oak dresser, a bookcase filled with Beatrix Potter books.
The house had been gifted to the princess' parents on a visit to Cardiff's Greyfriars Hall on March 16, 1932. They were given the keys by schoolgirl Jean Blake, who was the daughter of plumber William who had helped to work on the cottage.
At first it was put on public display at part of the Ideal Home Exhibition, and was then sent on a tour of the UK to raise money for charities, before being placed at Royal Lodge in December 1933.
The house was restored in 2012 as part of the Queen's 60th Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The plan was managed by Princess Beatrice, and work included new curtains and upholstery, refreshed paintwork and a rethatched roof.
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