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This day 6 Feb 1685: Death of Charles II - Catherine of Braganza (associated with the QH) becomes The Queen Dowager.
Pic ©@NPGLondon
Sadly, Mary II's sister Anne had no such respect for The Queen's House... handing over the nine Great Hall Gentileschi ceiling paintings to her 'very close' friend Sarah Churchill for her Marlborough House.
@RCT @WallaceMuseum … anyone with a bit of spare time can also play ‘Spot the Difference’ with these two vdv paintings from the © @RMGreenwich online collection
@RMGreenwich … Pell was once resident at The Queen’s House and died there in 1869.
Pic © @RMGreenwich
7 Oct 1645 twas also squeaky-bottom time for Inigo Jones, Wenceslaus Hollar & John Paulet 5th marquess of Winchester.
New #BasingHouse worry
This day 4 October 1646 death of Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, a prominent English courtier AND patron of Inigo Jones… 1/2
This day 8 April 1704: Death of Greenwich Ranger Henry Sidney, First Earl of Romney from smallpox…
@orncgreenwich X-ray of late Queen Mother’s bag reveals what happened to the Golden Key, used by @RoyalFamily to open NMM in 1937
https://t.co/2N7iwB8WEB
Today 25 March 1677: Death of maybe THE greatest etcher/draughtsman Václav Hollar, who left us a fine record of The Queens House c.1637