The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times (1885) (14778705572)

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Title: The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times

Year: 1885 (1880s)

Authors: Law, Ernest, 1854-1930

Subjects: Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England)

Publisher: London : G. Bell and Sons

Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute

Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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windows ofwhich are seen in the accompanying engraving. The door,shown in the same view, is that into the little garden called Lady Morningtons, which lady, as we shall see later, wasgiven apartments in the Palace in the same year as theStadtholder. The Stadtholder and his family continued to reside atHampton Court until 1802, when they returned to theContinent, after the Treaty of Amiens. Of his residence at Hampton Court, scarcely any tradi- ^ Wraxalls Memoirs of his Own Brewer^s Beauties of England^yohTimes. x., part v., p. 456, ed. 1816. ^ Biographic Universelle, vol. xxx., * Suite XLIV.p. 311. 1797) T^^^ Stadtholder of Holland in the Palace. 321 tionary reminiscences survive, although, but a few years ago,there were one or two persons about Hampton Court, whoremembered having seen him and his attendants. Nordo we find recorded in the annals of the time any notableincidents connected with his stay in England. There is acaricature of him, however, by Gillray, dated April ist, 1797,

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North-east Angle of the old Palace.(From a plate in Lysons Middlesex Parishes^ anno 1800,) representing him as he used to perambulate with his secre-tary, Count Nasselin,—the Prince himself, who was veryheavy and corpulent, being usually in a state of somnolence inhis walk. It is, perhaps, also, to his wife and her ladies-in-waiting, that the walk under the elms and chestnuts againstthe Tilt Yard wall, owes its curious name of the Frog f Y 322 History of Hampton Court Palace. (1798 Walk, which, it is supposed, was the favourite promenadeof the Dutch Fraus ox Frows of her Highnesss household. At any rate, the life of himself and of his family, during theeight years they spent at Hampton Court, must have beendull and uneventful in the extreme—enlivened by nothingmore exciting than an occasional visit from George III.,who, whether at Windsor or at Kew, was within an easydrive of the Palace. In relation to one of these visits a story is told, whichmay be inserted here, as it relates t

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