Foto de stock - 1968 - The Garden of Sandringham House open again to the Public: Continuing the practise intiated by the late King, Her Majesty has thrown open the gardens of her family property - Sandringham House, Norfolk, to the public. All the proceeds are devoted, through the National Gardens Scheme, to the Queen's Institute for District Nursing, after an agreed percentage is paid to the Joint Gardens Committee of the National Trust, and the Royal Horticultural Society. The red-brick house, in the Elizabethon style is very large, and set in a 7,000 acre estate, of which 200 acres id parkland immediately surrounding the house. The House gardens, managed today under a head gardener and staff, are a keen interest of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh. They contain a lake, many fine treesand shrubs, and magnificent kitchen gardens. Nearby is the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, to which the late king as was King George V - was carried by his sevants and lay in state before being carried to London. The House and estate was purchased by King Edward VII in 1861, and has become a traditional Christmastide gathering place for the Royal family. From it most of the Christmas broadcast messages have gone cut to the world. The gardens (the house itself is given its necessary privacy as on entirely private resident by a strand of rope a few yards back from its walls) are open, except when a member of the Royal family is there, from 1100am to 5.00 pm each Wednesday and Thursday in June, every Wednesday and Thursday in July, except the 29th. August Bank Holiday, and Wednesday and Thursdays in August and September. (Credit Image: © Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com)