A bishop gave Eltham Palace to Edward II, then Edward IV added a great hall to it, and Henry VIII and his sisters grew up there. As often is the case, glory disappears quickly, and later for 200 years the palace was used as a farm. In the 1930s Stephen (inheritor of a textile fortune)Continue reading “Henry VIII and Art Deco”
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Kenwood House, London
Take a couple of earls, a billionaire businessman, a truckload of paintings, and you get an English stately home. Kenwood House was built for Lord Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice in the second half of the 1700s (above left in his robes, and right as a Roman senator). He was the guy who made theContinue reading “Kenwood House, London”
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