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176 TALLY'S ILLUSTRATED LONDON;
force near the capital a most necessitated invitation to
take his lodgings at that palace. The prince accepted it:
but at the same time hinted to the frightened prince that
he mast leave Whitehall." The Princess Mary, afterwards
the second queen of that name, was married here in No-
vember, 1677, at eleven at night, to the Prince of Orange,
Charles II. bestowing the bride, the Duke and Duchess of
York and many of the nobility being present at the cere-
mony. William III., on being called to the English
throne, was a temporary resident of the palace, which, soon
after his accession, was prepared as a dwelling for the
Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark her hus-
band, to whom she was here united in 1683. Upon the
accession of Queen Anne she made this her chief domi-
ciliatory palace, that of Whitehall having been destroyed
by fire in 1695. When the crown passed to the Brunswick
dynasty, George I. and George II. constantly lived at St.
James's, where in 1737 Caroline, the queen of the last-
mentioned monarch died. The palace was inhabited by
the succeeding kings, but her present majesty's abode is
Buckingham Palace. Still that of St. James's is not shorn
entirely of its ancient state and splendour, the levees and
drawing-rooms continuing to be held in it. In June,
1809, the palace received serious injury from a fire which
consumed the east wing of the inner court-yard, and
the damage was estimated to fall very little short of
£100,000.
Upon entering St. James's, the first room reached is the
guard-room, a gallery fitted up as an armoury, where upon
state occasions the yeomen of the guard attend in full
costume. Beyond are the state apartments, looking upon
the park. They comprehend a suite of three rooms, the
innermost being the presence-chamber, and the other two,
drawing-rooms. By George IV. they were fitted up in a
style of the most costly elegance in 1834. In the first of
these drawing-rooms are fine paintings of Tournay and
Lisle, places memorable as the scenes of British valour,
and a portrait of George II.; the other is enriched with
force near the capital a most necessitated invitation to
take his lodgings at that palace. The prince accepted it:
but at the same time hinted to the frightened prince that
he mast leave Whitehall." The Princess Mary, afterwards
the second queen of that name, was married here in No-
vember, 1677, at eleven at night, to the Prince of Orange,
Charles II. bestowing the bride, the Duke and Duchess of
York and many of the nobility being present at the cere-
mony. William III., on being called to the English
throne, was a temporary resident of the palace, which, soon
after his accession, was prepared as a dwelling for the
Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark her hus-
band, to whom she was here united in 1683. Upon the
accession of Queen Anne she made this her chief domi-
ciliatory palace, that of Whitehall having been destroyed
by fire in 1695. When the crown passed to the Brunswick
dynasty, George I. and George II. constantly lived at St.
James's, where in 1737 Caroline, the queen of the last-
mentioned monarch died. The palace was inhabited by
the succeeding kings, but her present majesty's abode is
Buckingham Palace. Still that of St. James's is not shorn
entirely of its ancient state and splendour, the levees and
drawing-rooms continuing to be held in it. In June,
1809, the palace received serious injury from a fire which
consumed the east wing of the inner court-yard, and
the damage was estimated to fall very little short of
£100,000.
Upon entering St. James's, the first room reached is the
guard-room, a gallery fitted up as an armoury, where upon
state occasions the yeomen of the guard attend in full
costume. Beyond are the state apartments, looking upon
the park. They comprehend a suite of three rooms, the
innermost being the presence-chamber, and the other two,
drawing-rooms. By George IV. they were fitted up in a
style of the most costly elegance in 1834. In the first of
these drawing-rooms are fine paintings of Tournay and
Lisle, places memorable as the scenes of British valour,
and a portrait of George II.; the other is enriched with