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The д building has beneath it а Gothic crypt with a vaulted 
roof. In one of the rooms architectural fragments, Tudor in style, 
ave без wor nicked ah It seems exceedingly probable that these were 
Simpson (p. 30) gives the following history of the present Palace :— 
* The House now called Kew Palace (but originally the Dutch House), is an old 
structure of red brick, which is stated by Brayley and others to have been erected 
Samuel Fortrey, E whose representative, William Fortrey, Esq., it was 
alienated in 1697 to ae Richard Levett. Queen Caroline, in the reign of George II., 
when making her improvements, took a long lease of this House, which had not 
expired in 1781, in which year the freehold was purchased of me descendants of 
о + „= for her late Majesty Queen са by whom it had previously 
ring." 
In Burrell’s rm of the manor T ук pome май at the back of the 
Palace is marked with the na tt, so that it is probably: 
correct that it passed into ere some tira the family of that 
name. But the idea that it was ever leased by Queen Caroline seems 
possibly to have arisen from a confusion with the neighbourin — 
about | it. It is an interesting specimen of Jacobean architecture. Th 
in to the hands of Sir Hugh Partie "Nothing more is 
Know about it, though it is possible that it and not Suffolk Place 
supplied vat pore quc foundation of the present building. 
plan (1724) the Palace is called the Prices Royal's 
. 996) says that the marriages of the Duke of Clar ence 
and of Фе Duke of Kent to the Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg were 
celebrated here by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of 
London on Saturday, J Ap 11, 1818, “when a temporary altar was 
“ fitted up in the Queen" s drawing room, which looks into Kew Gardens, 
** on the first floor. 
On November 17 the same year Queen Charlotte died here. 
Pera tt g to Sim . 81) she was taken ill e Buckingham House. 
* Ву the advice mw physicians the Queen was to have been removed 
“ to Windsor, but not being sufficiently recovered she stopped at Kew 
* Palace.” Walford NE ш =й, says the room was at the top of the 
staircase on the 
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