Hatfield House
DID YOU KNOW?
• The only known surviving copy of
the first King James Bible is still in the possession of the Cecils, and can be seen on display at Hatfield House.
• The main architect of the
house was Robert Lemynge, but the later-famous Inigo Jones, and Simon Basil, Surveyor of the King’s Works, also contributed to the design.
• Hatfield House is one of the Treasure
Houses of England: ten of the most magnificent palaces, houses and castles in England.
• When Henry VIII dispersed the
possessions of the Church, he took Hatfield House over and used it chiefly as a residence for his children, Mary, Elizabeth and Edward.
• Hatfield House, during Charles II’s
reign, was visited on numerous occasions by London diarist Samuel Pepys.
“Queen Victoria and Prince Albert stayed at Hatfield, and to mark the occasion, bedrooms were redecorated and three pairs of ornamental iron gates, cast in Paris, were erected”
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