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in 1838 made it possible for residents to commute daily to London. In 1846 the estate was broken up into lots for building development and sold at three public auctions in May, August and September of that year. Following a period of private ownership by James Watts Peppercorne, the house was adapted
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The queen's bed was "laced with parchment lace of gold and silver spaingled", and the bedchamber was lined with panels of satin laced with coloured silks. Furnishing included painted and gilt Italian style chairs, and other seating was upholstered in red velvet with her initials. Despite this luxury,
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The four-star Oatlands Park Hotel now occupies the site where the post-Commonwealth Oatlands mansion (Oatlands House) once stood. Within the core of the building are some surviving details for earlier stages of its existence. The former site of Oatlands Palace is down the hill towards the centre of
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The little castle, 18 miles from London, lies on a slope and commands the most glorious view. Among its many beauties is a most remarkable grotto which cost ÂŁ25 000 sterling, and which was 11 years in the building. It is very large and contains many diversions,
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to remake the gardens. In August 1637 it was rumoured she was sickening with consumption (tuberculosis, which was frequently fatal as penicillin was not yet discovered). At Oatlands she was drinking asses' (donkeys) milk as a remedy.
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in 1824 (although it was not until after the Duke's death in 1827 that the sale was finally concluded) and again remodelled in 1830. Hughes had tried to dispose of the estate by public auction in 1829 but this part did not sell.
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sold Oatlands and some other Royal residences to help pay Parliamentary debts. Robert Turbridge bought Oatlands Palace and its contents for about ÂŁ4,000. He demolished it and sold the bricks to
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The ambassador of Savoy, Antonio Scanese, Count of Scarnafes, arrived to visit Anne of Denmark at Oatlands on 3 October 1614. She provided a grand reception for the Venetian ambassador
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and cloth of silver decorated with borders of purple velvet on the seams. It featured 108 embroidered badges of Anne and Henry and their crowned arms on the tester and ceeler.
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Anne of Denmark was sometimes bored or melancholy, and wrote to King James that she was "weary of Oatlands, of my mares, of my deer, of my dogs, and of my vineyard".
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paint, he painted imitation "flotherwoode", with gold and silver highlights on the mouldings, and arabesque patterns and paintwork of "markatree", perhaps resembling
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The palace was built around three main adjoining quadrangular courtyards covering fourteen hectares and using an existing 15th-century moated manor house.
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A single house – remote from the site of the palace itself and possibly originally functioning as a hunting lodge – survived the demolition. After the
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actual water that flows in from various sides, a beautiful English garden, various entrances and exits, besides a most charming bath.
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on her marriage to Charles I. She used it as a country retreat, installing part of her art collection on site, employing
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Wendy Hitchmough, 'Setting the Stuart court: placing portraits in the performance of Anglo-Spanish negotiations',
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again enlarged it as well as laying out formal gardens. He abandoned it as his main residence when he inherited
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Fringe Frog & Tassel: The Art of the Trimmings-Maker in Interior Decoration in Britain and Ireland
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Mary Tudor retreated to Oatlands after the end of her anticipated pregnancy. Her previous residence,
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to design an ornamental gateway from the Privy Garden to the Park. Work on site was supervised by
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to decorate the long gallery with a woodgrain pattern in 1598. After priming the panelling with
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at Oatlands on 30 August 1618. He was welcomed and entertained by her Lord Chamberlain, the
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and operated as a hotel in 1856, known as the South Western (later Oatlands Park) Hotel.
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Her art collection at Oatlands included portraits of her Danish nephews, her courtiers
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for a seven-year period, and renewed the term in 1839. The arrival of the
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Anna of Denmark: The Material and Visual Culture of the Stuart Courts
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came to Oatlands on a progress in September 1514 and hunted stags on
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troops injured in France. Subsequently, one of the main streets in
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The former entrance gateway still stands and is Grade II-listed.
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smuggled her into France in the summer of 1646 during the
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The house burned down in 1794 but was quickly rebuilt in
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In 1832 he leased the mansion and adjoining parkland to
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in the palace on 28 July 1540. Henry's subsequent wife,
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was renamed New Zealand Avenue in honour of those men.
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in 1820, the whole property was sold. It was bought by
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Weybridge. This was once part of the lands of the same
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Letter of Catherine Parr to brother William, July 1543
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Much of the foundation stone for the palace came from
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Anna of Denmark and her African servant at Oatlands,
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In 1646 Oatlands was a temporary home of the infant
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Index


Tudor
Stuart
palace
manor
Oatlands
Weybridge
Surrey
estate
Chertsey Abbey
Dissolution of the Monasteries

Henry VIII
Chertsey Meads
Anne of Cleves
an inventory
curtains
cloth of gold
Catherine Howard
Catherine Parr
William, Lord Parr
Hampton Court Palace
Sergeant Painter
Leonard Fryer
white lead
marquetry

Paul van Somer
Prince Henry
Princess Elizabeth

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