The History Of The Royal Residences Of Windsor Castle St Jamess Palace Carlton House Kensington Palace Hampton Court Buckingham House And Frogmore Vol 2 Of 3 Classic Reprint

Author : W. H. Pyne
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396682865
Total Pages : 262 pages
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Download or read book The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore, Vol. 3 of 3 (Classic Reprint) written by W. H. Pyne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore, Vol. 3 of 3 Henry having thus obtained possession of the ancient hospital, pulled it down, when, according to tradition, Thomas Cromwell, Lord Essex, gave the design for the present edifice, which was called the King's Manor of St. James. The site of the present park, which was then an extensive marsh, was drained, inclosed, and planted. The king used this newly raised mansion only as a pri vate residence, for he kept his court at the ancient palace of Westminster, as had his illustrious predecessors for many centuries. Cardinal Wolsey at this period lived in almost regal state at the neighbour ing palace of the Archbishops of York, then called York Place, which he had fitted up in a style of great magnificence: His chambers were hung with cloth of gold and silver; his services consisted of massive gold; and he maintained a vast establishment. In the year 1530, the king, enraged at the opposition of the court of Rome to his proposed divorce from Queen Catherine, in which he implicated Wolsey, disgraced his favourite minister, deprived him of the seals and his other civil employments, and seized for his own use not only York Place, but all the furniture and treasure of the ostentatious and unfortunate prelate. Henry removed his court to this newly acquired possession, when it obtained the title of the Royal Palace of Whitehall, from which period to its destruction in 1697, it remained the principal metropolitan palace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.