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Dec. 15th, 2009 03:03 pmThis doesn't warrant another whole "short" (for which I'm sure all my readers mutter a sigh of relief), but I couldn't resist relaying the following.
Inigo Jones built a number of small hunting lodges for Charles I. One was at Bagshot in Surrey; it was completed in the early 1630s and proved very popular with successive generations of royals, being remodelled ever century or so. In the 1870s, the original (much modified) lodge was destroyed and a new set of buildings built as the home of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, the third of Queen Victoria's sons. He served in various capacities, including as governor general of Canada, and died (at Bagshot Lodge) in 1942.
Afterwards it was briefly the headquarters of the Royal Army Chaplains' Department, who placed a sign by the park's pond reading "Please do not walk on the water".
That is all. :-)
Inigo Jones built a number of small hunting lodges for Charles I. One was at Bagshot in Surrey; it was completed in the early 1630s and proved very popular with successive generations of royals, being remodelled ever century or so. In the 1870s, the original (much modified) lodge was destroyed and a new set of buildings built as the home of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, the third of Queen Victoria's sons. He served in various capacities, including as governor general of Canada, and died (at Bagshot Lodge) in 1942.
Afterwards it was briefly the headquarters of the Royal Army Chaplains' Department, who placed a sign by the park's pond reading "Please do not walk on the water".
That is all. :-)
