The major renovation project by Charles designer Robert Kyme cost £4.5 million.
Photos of the interior of the house of King Charles III of Great Britain – Clarence House – appeared on the network. It contains portraits of the Queen Mother and other priceless items. The details were provided by the Daily Mail.
As you know, King Charles and his wife will not move to Buckingham Palace, but will remain living in Clarence House, where they moved in 2003 after the death of the Queen Mother.
During this time, they brought home their own touches, including a seventeenth-century Jingdezhen pitcher and lid, a portrait of the Queen Mother, the Chelsea Botanical Gardens, a collection of porcelain, an illuminated mid-th -eighteenth century gilded wooden pedestal. , an eighteenth-century porcelain mantel clock, and a bust of King George VI. on top of a rosewood cabinet.
It also has a landscape with a large tree, 1780, a pair of showcases with gilded brass details, a display case with a Chinese snuffbox, an open chair from 1813, a carved and gilded wooden stool from 1828 , a portrait of the Duchess of York, the future Queen Mother from 1923, a display table from 1777-80s, a pair of gilt-bronze candelabra from the 1770-90s, a portrait of the then Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen from 1948.
The five rooms on the ground floor can be visited during the summer months when the couple is on vacation, while the upper floors are closed.
The Morning Room may be one of the hotel’s most famous rooms, having been used for several occasions by the royal family, including the christenings of Prince George in 2013 and Prince Louis in 2018. It was originally known as the breakfast room, which originally designed by John Nash for the Duke of Clarence, and considered a favorite part of the Queen Consort’s home.
Next to the mantelpiece is a turquoise-studded bergère chair, part of Thomas Chippendale’s gilded wood upholstered furniture dating from about 1773. They once belonged to King George IV. These bergères boast an elegant stucco frame decorated with carved laurel wreaths tied with ribbons, with chiseled fluted tapered legs and plain feet. It is believed to have been commissioned by George III’s brother, the Duke of Gloucester and was in the Royal Collection during the reign of George IV.
The room also contains an extensive collection of Chelsea botanical china, including a mantel clock that once belonged to Queen Charlotte.
The Clarence House Library is used by King Charles and the Queen Consort for official occasions and is one of five rooms on the ground floor of the house open to the public. And the Queen Mother, who lived at Clarence House for almost five decades, used the room for intimate dinners. The room is filled with royal treasures, from a portrait of Queen Anne (1665-1714) to an ornate candelabra. In particular, there is a bottle of Chinese snuff that was given to the royal family for Christmas in 1914 and is on display in an attractive wall display in the background of the portrait.
Elsewhere there are double portraits of the Queen Mother, commissioned when she was Duchess of York, and of the then Princess Elizabeth, which hang on either side of the large double doors in the Morning Room.
Clarence House is adjacent to St. James’s Palace and shared the palace garden. For almost 50 years, from 1953 to 2002, it was the home of the Queen Mother and is still decorated largely to her taste with some modern touches.
The house was the home of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh when they were first married, and Prince Charles was raised by his parents in the stately home until the age of three.
The major renovation project by Charles’ interior designer Robert Kyme cost £4.5 million and was paid for by taxpayers from a subsidy allocated to the upkeep of the palace.
Also, King Charles spent £1.6 million of his own money on extra services and also paid for the decoration of two rooms.
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