The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . t Sunday, this notice in the cloister, atthe door of entrance : NOTICE! Whereas a tendency to faint is becoming a prevalent infirmityamong young ladies frequenting this chapel, notice is hereby given,that, for the future, ladies so affected will no longer be carried outby Sir Horace Seymour, but by Branscombe the dustman. This warning produced the desired effect, and the plagueof fainting beauties was stayed. After the death of William IV., his widow. Queen Ade-laide, was granted Bushey House as a residence; and hereshe led a quiet and unsel
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . t Sunday, this notice in the cloister, atthe door of entrance : NOTICE! Whereas a tendency to faint is becoming a prevalent infirmityamong young ladies frequenting this chapel, notice is hereby given,that, for the future, ladies so affected will no longer be carried outby Sir Horace Seymour, but by Branscombe the dustman. This warning produced the desired effect, and the plagueof fainting beauties was stayed. After the death of William IV., his widow. Queen Ade-laide, was granted Bushey House as a residence; and hereshe led a quiet and unselfish life till her death in 1849, dis-pensing in public and private charities in the neighbourhoodand elsewhere, no less a sum than ;^30,ooo a year. In 1844,she gave, in a summer-house in the pheasantry, a dejeu7ierto Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the King and Queenof the French, the King and Queen of Belgium, the Kingof Holland, and many other royalties.^ Bushey House is now lent by the Queen to the Due deNemours. Keenes Beauties of CHAPTER XXIV. THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA—HAMPTON COURT OPENEDFREE TO THE PUBLIC. Accession of Queen Victoria—The Palace thrown open to the Public withoutCharge—Gloomy Prognostications of the Result—Success of the Move—PopularAppreciation of the Boon—Shocking Murder in the Palace of a Sergeant by aPrivate—The Inhabitants of the Palace and the Poors Rates—The Exemptionchallenged—The Private Apartments assessed—Appeal to the Court of QueensBench—Conditions and Obligations of Tenure of Apartments—Periodical Sur-veys and Inspections, and Orders to repair—Are they occupied by the Sove-reign ?—The Inhabitants held liable to Assessment—Arrangement for the Pay-ment of the Rates—Immunity from Arrest within the Palace—Colonel Rose andthe Bailiffs. ITH the accession of her present most graciousMajesty Queen Victoria to the throne, thereopened a new, and, up to the present time, thefinal era in the history of H
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