#hatfieldhouse

Rebecca (2020) dir. Ben Wheatley

Hatfield House Lounge #England. This room with its gallery of minstrels has not been altered since its construction in 1612. In the background the famous Rainbow portrait of Elizabeth I (1600–1602) attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger.

Hatfield House is located in Hertfordshire, England. The Jacobean house was built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, the 1stEarl of Salisbury. The house was lavishly embellished for the Royal Court and has state rooms decorated with paintings and tapestries. The house has an intricately carved grand staircase, a private chapel with a rare stained glass window, the King James Drawing Room, the Chinese Bedroom, the Long Gallery, the North Gallery, the Winter Dining Room, the Armory, the Victorian Kitchen, and the Marble Hall. There’s also a Library with a collection of more than 10,000 volumes dating from the 16thcentury to the present, and a Banqueting Hall located in what remains of the Old Palace, which was built in 1485 by Bishop Ely. The Old Palace is available for hire as a corporate or wedding venue. For over 400 years, the estate stayed in the Cecil family. Currently, Hatfield House is under ownership by the 7thMarquess and Marchioness of Salisbury. Hatfield House and Gardens are open to the public. The house sits on 1,000 acres with the gardens covering 42 acres, which includes an orchard, scented plants, herb gardens, water parterres, terraces, fountains, a sundial garden, a foot maze, and extensive parkland with three different length footpaths. The estate has a restaurant and a store. In 1558, Lady Elizabeth Tudor was sitting beneath an oak tree at her Hatfield estate when she received the news that she was the Queen of England. Hatfield House is one of the ten Treasure Houses of England. 

Jill Raggett

On This Day In History . 17 November 1558 . Queen Elizabeth I's accession . . 👑 Elizabeth became queen at the age of 25, & declared her intentions to her Council & other peers who had come to Hatfield to swear allegiance. The speech contains the first record of her adoption of the medieval political theology of the sovereign's "two bodies": the body natural & the body politic: . 'My lords, the law of nature moves me to sorrow for my sister; the burden that is fallen upon me makes me amazed, & yet, considering I am God's creature, ordained to obey His appointment, I will thereto yield, desiring from the bottom of my heart that I may have assistance of His grace to be the minister of His heavenly will in this office now committed to me. & as I am but one body naturally considered, though by His permission a body politic to govern, so shall I desire you all ... to be assistant to me, that I with my ruling & you with your service may make a good account to Almighty God & leave some comfort to our posterity on earth. I mean to direct all my actions by good advice & counsel'. . 👑 As her triumphal progress wound through the city on the eve of the coronation ceremony, she was welcomed wholeheartedly by the citizens & greeted by orations & pageants, most with a strong Protestant flavour. Elizabeth's open & gracious responses endeared her to the spectators, who were "wonderfully ravished". . 👑 The following day, 15 January 1559, Elizabeth was crowned & anointed by Owen Oglethorpe, the Catholic bishop of Carlisle, in Westminster Abbey. She was then presented for the people's acceptance, amidst a deafening noise of organs, fifes, trumpets, drums, & bells. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1558 #D17Nov #ElizabethI #QueenofEngland #ElizabethIofEngland #HouseofTudor #Hatfieldhouse #Monarch #Queen #Tudor #Tudors #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #historyfacts #historic #TheTudors #OnThisDay #virginqueen #EnglishHistory (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4-h_-kgxVF/?igshid=6uqprcqlgyad

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