<Tr> <Th> Engineer </Th> <Td> Thomas Cubitt (builder) </Td> </Tr> <P> Osborne House is a former royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom . The house was built between 1845 and 1851 for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a summer home and rural retreat . Prince Albert designed the house himself in the style of an Italian Renaissance palazzo . The builder was Thomas Cubitt, the London architect and builder whose company built the main façade of Buckingham Palace for the royal couple in 1847 . An earlier smaller house on the site was demolished to make way for a new and far larger house, though the original entrance portico survives as the main gateway to the walled garden . </P> <P> Queen Victoria died at Osborne House in January 1901 . Following her death, the house became surplus to royal requirements and was given to the state, with a few rooms being retained as a private museum to Queen Victoria . From 1903 until 1921 it was used as a junior officer training college for the Royal Navy, known as the Royal Naval College, Osborne . In 1998 training programmes consolidated at the Britannia Royal Naval College, now at Dartmouth, thus vacating Osborne House . The House is now open to the public for tours . </P> <P> Queen Victoria and Prince Albert bought Osborne House on the Isle of Wight from Lady Isabella Blachford in October 1845 . They wanted a home removed from the stresses of court life . Queen Victoria had spent two holidays on the Isle of Wight as a young girl, when her mother, the then Duchess of Kent, rented Norris Castle, the estate next door to Osborne . The setting of the three - storey Georgian house appealed to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; in particular, the views of the Solent reminded Albert of the Bay of Naples in Italy . They soon realised that the house was too small for their needs . They decided with advisors to replace the house with a new, larger residence . </P>

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