Chateau de la Croe

The Chateau de la Croe is a substantial segregated estate arranged in eight hectares of grounds on the Cap d'Antibes landmass of the Cote d'Azur, in the Alpes-Maritimes bureau of southern France. The traditional style chateau was structured by modeler Armand-Albert Rateau and inherent 1927 for Sir Pomeroy Burton, general supervisor of Associated Newspapers. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor rented the chateau in May 1938, notwithstanding their Parisian manor, after the Duke's renouncement as King Edward VIII in 1936. Among the Windsors' visitors were Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire and her significant other, the eleventh Duke of Devonshire.

Deborah Devonshire later reviewed that the Duke of Windsor wore full Highland dress at supper, with a kilt and a dirk, and a Highland flautist engaged the supper visitors, which Devonshire thought was "more fit to the dim glens than the Cote d'Azur in July." The Windsors' maid later worked at Chatsworth, home of the Devonshires. The maid disclosed to Deborah Devonshire that all the staff utilized at the Chateau de la Croe by the Windsors were blonde haired. As a major aspect of the work, a pool was based on the top of the structure, and a rec center and film were introduced in the basement. The grounds were finished by Peter Wirtz, the child of noted Belgian scene originator Jacques Wirtz, and planted with Californian and Mediterranean species.