Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
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ng we hearof on the site of the present palace; it wascalled Arlington House after its lease to the British Museum. There is a Bow Library,so called from its rounded corners, at Bucking-ham Palace now, but it is a room which containsno books, only a collection of china, includingone of the most… … PIANO IN VERNIS-MARTIN IN THE WHITE DRAWING-ROOM. Earl of Arlington, of the Cabal Ministry.This nobleman is said to have brought overfrom Holland the first pound of tea ever intro-duced into England. The price, sixty shillings,made it an appropriate beverage for palaces,and it is reasonable to…
