The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . oyal Highness, to the great pleasure ofthose who had been concerned in the thing. This broughtthe Princess into perfect tranquillity.^ Lord Sunderland, who was another of the Kings friends,and was commissioned by the ministry to go over to Han-over, with the object of urging the King to come back soon,was also seen at the palace occasionally; and he seems, likeTownshend, to have been disposed to treat the Princesswith a very inadequate degree of deference. He was to goabout the middle of August, but before he started he camedown to take his
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . oyal Highness, to the great pleasure ofthose who had been concerned in the thing. This broughtthe Princess into perfect tranquillity.^ Lord Sunderland, who was another of the Kings friends,and was commissioned by the ministry to go over to Han-over, with the object of urging the King to come back soon,was also seen at the palace occasionally; and he seems, likeTownshend, to have been disposed to treat the Princesswith a very inadequate degree of deference. He was to goabout the middle of August, but before he started he camedown to take his leave. The Princess received him in theQueens Gallery, and some political topic being touched on, ^ Lady Cowpers Diary, p. 123. i7i6j The Princess slighted by the Ministers. 217 they had so loud and heated a conversation, that she desiredhim to speak lower, for the people in the garden wouldhear; to which he rudely answered, Let them hear. Tothis the Princess replied, Well, if you have a mind, letem; but you shall walk next the windows, for, in the. The Queens Gallery. humour we both are, one of us must certainly jump out atthe window, and Im resolved it shant be me. Of the room in which this interview occurred, and whichis one of the finest in the new Palace—being 81 feet longby 25 feet broad, and having seven large windows abuttingeast on the Great Fountain Garden—we here insert a is probable that, like the State Bedchamber at the end of 218 History of Hampton Court Palace. [i 716 it, which we described at the beginning of this chapter, ithad remained unfinished until the early years of the reignof George I. ; and it was not, at any rate, until then thatthe tapestry, with which it is now decorated, was hung onits walls. The tapestries, which consist of a series of seven piecesfrom the celebrated designs of Charles Le Brun, illustrativeof the life of Alexander the Great, were, it seems, purchasedby General, afterwards Lord Cadogan, in Flanders or Hol-land, probab
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