KING EDWARD VIII AND HIS SOCIALITE WIFE LIVED HERE FOR A TIME AFTER HE ABDICATED THE BRITISH THRONE
In the 1930s, King Edward VIII’s desire to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcée and socialite, forced him to abdicate the British throne. After the couple wed, Edward was made Governor of the Bahamas and the newly-named Duke and Duchess of Windsor moved to Nassau. Given that the existing Governor’s Mansion was not up to the couple’s standards, the house went under extensive renovations. While the Duke and Duchess waited, they moved somewhere a bit more comfortable: Sigrist House.
Now, Sigrist House, where the Duke and Duchess lived in 1940, is on the market for $8.5 million. The house is named after its builder, British aviation pioneer and movie producer, Sir Frederick Sigrist. Built in the 1930s, the mansion has since been upgraded, with vestiges of its history preserved.
The residence is 15,000 square feet with views of Goodman’s Bay, overlooking the new Baha Mar Resort and Golf Course, and the Atlantic Ocean in the distance. The home contains fifteen bedrooms and thirteen full baths. The sprawling estate consists of a four-bedroom-suite main residence, two four-bedroom guesthouses, and a three-bedroom apartment.
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