Every effort was made to restore the house to the Annenbergs’ widely respected taste in furnishings and to ensure that the house will be suitable for future Ambassadors and their families. Winfield House Today We employ around 17,033 staff in our diplomatic and development offices worldwide, including in 281 embassies and high commissions abroad. Our UK-based staff work in King Charles Street in London, Abercrombie House in East Kilbride, and in Milton Keynes. Corporate information Access our information February 2021 updates for London Diplomatic List, Honorary Consulates within the UK and Consular Offices outside London

Chargé d’Affaires Reeker at the Remembrance Day Memorial Commemoration at Brookwood American CemeteryAugust update of the London Diplomatic list, Consulates in the UK outside London and the Honorary Consuls lists. London Diplomatic list, Consulates in the UK outside London and the Honorary Consuls Lists updated. In 1939, with World War II about to erupt and her marriage to Count Reventlow ending, Barbara Hutton returned to America. World War II May update of the Foreign Heads of Mission Precedence list, London Diplomatic list, Consulates in the UK outside London and the Honorary Consuls lists.

Winfield House is unique among American residences in that not only was it originally a gift to U.S. Government but it has since been showered with riches in the form of antique furniture, paintings, porcelain, china, glass, chandeliers, objets d’art – all the things that make it the beautiful house visitors see today.By taking a virtual tour, you will learn about the architecture and see some of the rooms and gardens of historic Winfield House. Ambassador and Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg made a tremendous contribution to the house during their tenure from 1969 to 1974. They not only refurbished the house from top to bottom, modernizing the whole infrastructure and adding a new roof, but also furnished it with the most carefully chosen and valuable pieces of furniture, beautiful paintings and precious objets d’art. A chandelier from an Indian palace was bought for the reception hall. Bedrooms and reception rooms were redecorated by William Haines, Ted Graber and Dudley Poplak. The tennis court was resurfaced and the indoor swimming pool repainted. In the gardens old and ailing trees were replaced with fully-grown conifers brought from Scotland. Then a box garden and new trelliswork were added. August update of the London Diplomatic, Honorary consulates in the UK and Consular offices outside London lists. Three documents updated: London Diplomatic list, honorary consuls list, and consulates outside London. documents updated: London Diplomatic List, honorary consulates in the UK, consular offices outside London.

Updated London diplomatic list, honorary consulates in the UK and Consular Offices outside London lists. July 2021 update of the London Diplomatic List, Honorary Consulates within the UK and Consular Offices outside London. The preconception that most homeless people are addicts is not true, said Williams: “Sixty per cent of our chaps are homeless because of relationship breakdowns.” Winfield House was also used as an Air Crew Reception Center, along with another in Abbey Lodge, for recruits being screened as prospective RAF pilots. Near misses from German bombs damaged the roof and moisture ruined the parquet floors and in 1944 a flying bomb exploded forty yards from the house, killing one cadet and injuring twenty others. Six weeks later Winfield House ceased to host the RAF unit – although it was later used as an American Officers’ Club.June update of the London Diplomatic list, consulates in the UK outside London and the honorary consuls lists

The house stands behind fifteen-foot high iron gates on land that was once part of a “great forest, with wooded glades and lairs of wild beasts, deer both red and fallow, wild bulls and boars”. Half a century before the Norman Conquest the land belonged to the Abbey of Barking. Over the years, King Henry Vlll hunted there, Queen Elizabeth I used it for entertaining dignitaries and King James I offered it as collateral to raise money to go to war. King Charles II had the whole area “disparked” and toward the end of the 17th century Lord Arlington was given one of the first private leases. A map of Regent’s Park shows Winfield House – the residence of the Ambassador of the United States of America to the Court of St. James’s – occupying twelve and a half acres on the northwest side.

May update of the London Diplomatic list, consulates in the UK outside London and the honorary consuls lists Three documents updated: London Diplomatic List, Honorary Consulates in the UK, and Consular Offices outside London.