What is Sunninghill Park?
{{coord|51.426040|-0.649894|display=title|type:landmark}} '''Sunninghill Park''' was a [[English country house|country house]] and [[estate]] of about {{convert|665|acre|km2 sqmi|1}} directly north of [[Cheapside, Berkshire|Cheapside]]. The early 19th century house burned down in 1947 and a replacement was built in the grounds during the final years of the 1980s to be the [[official residence]] of the [[Prince Andrew, Duke of York|Duke of York]] from 1990 until 2004; it was sold in 2007. The house fell into disrepair and was demolished in 2016.<ref name=aol/> == First house == Sunninghill Park was originally part of Windsor Forest until 1630, when [[Charles I of England|King Charles I]] granted it to Thomas Carey.<ref name=vch>{{cite web|url=http://www.berkshirehistory.com/villages/sunninghill.html|title=RBH: History of Sunninghill, Berkshire|website=www.berkshirehistory.com|access-date=19 March 2019}}</ref> The first significant house was built on the estate in the late [[Georgian period]] in the early 19th century, being a stucco building of two stories with later additions.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43193|title=A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3|year=1923|chapter=Sunninghill|pages=134–136|editor=Ditchfield, P. H. and Page, William}}</ref> It served as the headquarters of the American Ninth Air Force from November 1943 to September 1944. The Crown Estate Commissioners purchased the property from Philip Hill in 1945. The main house was to be occupied by Princess Elizabeth (later [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]) and her future husband, [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], after their [[wedding]] in November 1947. However, the house burned down on 30 August 1947 before their wedding, so they rented [[Windlesham Moor]] instead.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2734506|title=Surrey home for princess|work=The Canberra Times|date=8 January 1948|page=1|access-date=4 July 2010}}</ref> In the mid-1960s,