Quarr Abbey House

It was at Quarr Abbey House that Princess Beatrice spent her honeymoon after her marriage to Prince Henry of Battenberg on July 23, 1885, at St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham on the Isle of Wight.

[2] Henry died ten years later and was buried at St. Mildred's Church, part of which became known as the Battenberg Chapel.

The Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, and the German Kaiser William II watched the sailing boats from the balcony of the house during the annual Cowes Week Regatta.

Only ten days before her death, Queen Victoria recorded in her diary she had enjoyed a duet at Quarr Abbey House played by Minna Cochrane and her daughter Beatrice.

After the Queen's death at Osborne House, the Cochrane family and others ceased to frequent the island so often.