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====Thatched House Lodge====
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Thatched House Lodge was the London home of United States General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] during the Second World War. Since 1963 it has been the residence of [[Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy]]. It was originally built as two houses in 1673 for two Richmond Park Keepers, as Aldridge Lodge, and was enlarged in 1727, possibly by [[William Kent]], as a home for [[Sir Robert Walpole]]. The two houses were joined and renamed Thatched House Lodge in 1771 by Sir John Soane. The gardens include an 18th-century two-room [[Thatching|thatched]] summer house which gave the main house its name.