. Walks in London . of Sir Robert Walpole, who, when he found the oldduchess desirous of making a suitable approach to herhouse, bought up the leases of the encroaching houses toprevent her. The house remained in the Marlboroughfamily till it was purchased for Princess Charlotte in was the London residence of Queen Adelaide in herwidowhood, and was settled upon Albert Edward, Prince ofWales, in 1850. The saloon still contains a number ofvery interesting pictures by Laguerre of the victories of theDuke of Marlborough, George IV. made a plan for con-necting Marlborough House with Carlton
. Walks in London . of Sir Robert Walpole, who, when he found the oldduchess desirous of making a suitable approach to herhouse, bought up the leases of the encroaching houses toprevent her. The house remained in the Marlboroughfamily till it was purchased for Princess Charlotte in was the London residence of Queen Adelaide in herwidowhood, and was settled upon Albert Edward, Prince ofWales, in 1850. The saloon still contains a number ofvery interesting pictures by Laguerre of the victories of theDuke of Marlborough, George IV. made a plan for con-necting Marlborough House with Carlton House by agallery of portraits of the British Sovereigns and historicalpersonages connected with them. ST. JAMESS PALACE. 55 The building which projects into the grounds of Marl-borough House, and which is entered from the roadwayinto the Park on the left of St. Jamess Palace, is interest-ing as the Roman Catholic Chapel built by Charles I. forHenrietta Maria, the erection of which gave such oifenceto his Gateway, St. Jamess Palace. The picturesque old brick gateway of St. Jamess Palacestill looks up St. Jamess Street, one of the most preciousrelics of the past in London, and enshrining the memory ^fa greater succession of historical events than any etherdomestic building in England, Windsor Castle not site oi the palace was occupied, even before the Cou- ^4 WALKS IN LONDON. quest, by a hospital dedicated to St. James, for fourteenmaidens that were leprous. Henry VIII. obtained it byexchange, pensioned off the sisters, and converted theHospital into * a fair mansion and park,* in the same yearin which he was married to Anne Boleyn, who was com-memorated here with him in love-knots, now almost oblite-rated, upon the side doors of the gateway, and in theletters H. A. on the chimney-piece of the presence-chamber or tapestry room. Holbein is sometimes said tohave been the kings architect here, as he was at White-hall. Henry can seldom have lived here, but h
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