"grace and favour" meaning in English

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          "text": "In 1986 a fire began in a grace-and-favour apartment above the King's Apartments in the south Wren wing.",
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        "(British, as a modifier to a form of accommodation) Owned by the sovereign or government and granted free of rent to a person as an expression of gratitude or obligation."
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