. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . had been incarcerating the embodiment of all authority, the firstgentleman in Cornwall, the very Lord Lieutenant himself. Bar-ring any similar experience, if King Charles ever slept in this cosyroom, he found himself in comfortable quarters ; but one is notquite so sure about Queen Anne, for hers is a very tiny apartment,nearly all bed ; and it is not quite clear how she got into theroom, or closed the door after she was in, unless her womenremoved at least the outworks of her attire before she entered. Lower down you come to the old Wit
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . had been incarcerating the embodiment of all authority, the firstgentleman in Cornwall, the very Lord Lieutenant himself. Bar-ring any similar experience, if King Charles ever slept in this cosyroom, he found himself in comfortable quarters ; but one is notquite so sure about Queen Anne, for hers is a very tiny apartment,nearly all bed ; and it is not quite clear how she got into theroom, or closed the door after she was in, unless her womenremoved at least the outworks of her attire before she entered. Lower down you come to the old Withdrawing-room ; abright, delightful room, with abundant light to show off the alle-gorical scenes of the tapestry, the carved ebony Tudor suite, theintricate Italian cabinets, the Persian carpet with needlework onboth sides ; also the cut velvet chairs, on which George III. andhis Queen took their disjune at Cotehele on August 2s, , it may be added, the old oak door, with its diagonal. KING CHARLESS ROOM 8l 82 Cotebele panelling and Tudor roses, in a setting of granite archway, so tookthe fancy of the Empress Frederick, that when she saw it, she atonce asked for an accurate drawing, with a view to reproducingit in her German residence. Down again to the next landing, and into the Red we find another elaborate bed, more cabinets, Chippendalechairs, and a pretty peep through the turned-back tapestry intothe south room beyond. This latter, just above the old Dining-room, being my ladys chamber, is honoured by having re-cesses, with squints into both Hall and Chapel. The hangingsare suggested to have been worked by Hillaria, and, with thechair covers, to have taken her fourteen years to execute ; butthis is pure conjecture. What is certain is that the mirror isdated three hundred years later (1008), and that that looks oldenough for anything. These mirrors are very characteristicitems. You see how, when large panes of silvered glass werenot procurable, small p
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