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THE PALACE
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red flock paper, until they were discovered by Mr.
Ernest Law and finally revealed to view in 1899.
This imposing room occupies the centre of Wren’s
East front and commands a beautiful view of the
Great Fountain Garden and Home Park, with
Charles H.’s Long Canal, fringed with noble lime-
trees, and the grand avenues running towards
Kingston Church and the Surrey hills.
The remaining rooms along the East front, and a
set of smaller ones at the back opening on the
Fountain Court, were those occupied by George IL
and his family, and owe most of their decorations to
Kent. We see the Queen’s closet with the marble
bath and the door leading into Sher private chapel,
where a chaplain said prayers while she dressed,
and the rooms from which the Prince of Wales
hurried off his unfortunate wife to St. James’s on
the agitated evening described by Hervev. All of
these rooms are hung with pictures belonging to
the Royal collection, King William’s Dressing-room
in the south wing containing the chief Tudor paint-
ings, while the best of the “ Mantuan pieces ” are
to be found in the King’s Audience Chamber and
Queen Anne’s rooms. The famous groups of Henry
VIII. and his family, and the large historical sub-
jects, “ The Field of the Cloth of Gold ” and “ Meet-
ing of Henry VIII. and Maximilian at Terouenne,”
now hang in the Queen’s Audience Chamber in the
east wing, and the best Flemish and Dutch pictures
in the Prince of Wales’s apartments. The rooms
on the ground floor just below these last, at the
north-east angle of the palace, are those that were
147
red flock paper, until they were discovered by Mr.
Ernest Law and finally revealed to view in 1899.
This imposing room occupies the centre of Wren’s
East front and commands a beautiful view of the
Great Fountain Garden and Home Park, with
Charles H.’s Long Canal, fringed with noble lime-
trees, and the grand avenues running towards
Kingston Church and the Surrey hills.
The remaining rooms along the East front, and a
set of smaller ones at the back opening on the
Fountain Court, were those occupied by George IL
and his family, and owe most of their decorations to
Kent. We see the Queen’s closet with the marble
bath and the door leading into Sher private chapel,
where a chaplain said prayers while she dressed,
and the rooms from which the Prince of Wales
hurried off his unfortunate wife to St. James’s on
the agitated evening described by Hervev. All of
these rooms are hung with pictures belonging to
the Royal collection, King William’s Dressing-room
in the south wing containing the chief Tudor paint-
ings, while the best of the “ Mantuan pieces ” are
to be found in the King’s Audience Chamber and
Queen Anne’s rooms. The famous groups of Henry
VIII. and his family, and the large historical sub-
jects, “ The Field of the Cloth of Gold ” and “ Meet-
ing of Henry VIII. and Maximilian at Terouenne,”
now hang in the Queen’s Audience Chamber in the
east wing, and the best Flemish and Dutch pictures
in the Prince of Wales’s apartments. The rooms
on the ground floor just below these last, at the
north-east angle of the palace, are those that were