The site where the hotel stands now was the London home of King George III's brother, the Duke of Gloucester, before it was bought by Robert Grosvenor, the first Marquess of Westminster, in 1806.

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And for want of a father the fifteen-year-old Princess had been born posthumously, months after a cricket ball fatally injured her father, Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1751 her brother William Henry, Duke of Gloucester gave her away.

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The four 300ft (91.4m) turbines would have been placed on the Barnwell Manor estate owned by the Duke of Gloucester, the Queen's cousin.

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