The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . ngs—In The Beauty Room —An Act of Parliament for a Bridge at Hampton Court—Curious Engravings of it—A second Bridge—Exorbitant Tolls—The thirdBridge purchased and freed—A Roadway closed in Bushey Park—Murmur-ings at Hampton Court and Hampton Wick—Lord Halifax and the Shoemaker—The Right of Way vindicated. FTER the death of Queen CaroHnewe hear Httleof George II. and his Court residing at HamptonCourt; and although it was not till the accessionof George III. that the sunshine of royalty waspermanently withdrawn, its decline in royalfavour may
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . ngs—In The Beauty Room —An Act of Parliament for a Bridge at Hampton Court—Curious Engravings of it—A second Bridge—Exorbitant Tolls—The thirdBridge purchased and freed—A Roadway closed in Bushey Park—Murmur-ings at Hampton Court and Hampton Wick—Lord Halifax and the Shoemaker—The Right of Way vindicated. FTER the death of Queen CaroHnewe hear Httleof George II. and his Court residing at HamptonCourt; and although it was not till the accessionof George III. that the sunshine of royalty waspermanently withdrawn, its decline in royalfavour may be said to have begun from that time. Occa-sionally, however, George II. would come down to the Palaceto spend the day, especially in the summer on Saturdayafternoons, accompanied by his new mistress, Lady Yar-mouth, and attended by half-a-dozen ladies and gentlemenof the household. They went in coaches and six in themiddle of the day, with heavy horse-guards kicking up thedust before them—dined, walked an hour in the garden,. 284 History of Hampton Court Palace, [1751 returned in the same dusty parade ; and his Majesty fanciedhimself the most gallant and lively prince in Europe. ^ At other times the King would pass a few days here,though he never stayed long. The bedroom he occupied onthese occasions still exists, pretty much in the state it thenwas; and in a room near it is the bed of crimson silk, whichhe used when last at Hampton Court, with his portmanteauplaced at the foot of it. After dinner, if we may believeWraxall, the King always took off his clothes, and reposedhimself for an hour in bed of an afternoon. In order toaccommodate himself to this habit, Mr. Pitt, when, asSecretary of State, he was sometimes necessitated to tran-sact business with the King during the time he lay down,always knelt on a cushion by the bedside—a mark of respectwhich contributed to render him not a little acceptable to hisMajesty. At his rising, George II. dressed hi
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