The #inkyscribe of #mountstreetgardens - I have spent my life living in a 4th floor walk up on #MountStreet #Mayfair opposite these gardens where I find repose with a #book & dream of history wearing my antique @Asprey tiara in what was once the #graveyard of St George’s Church #hanoversquare until 1842 when, following my #ancestor #danieloconnell #kingofireland successfully passing the #catholicemancipation Act 1829 & The #abolitionofslavery Act 1833 enabling the Jesuits to buy land in Mayfair & began building London’s high society Catholic Church so beloved by #OscarWilde #Edithsitwell & #evelynwaugh all of whom sought conversion here. The gardens were the graveyard for #Mayfair #aristocracy #writers #artists #composers #fashiondesigners & #eccentrics - including composer #ignatiussancho who was Born on a #slave ship & liberated by #LadyMontagu ⚜️Sancho became the toast of #Regency #society as composer & #dandy & close friend of our first black #queen - the Eccentric #QueenCharlotte ⚜️ Sancho & Queen Charlotte were both painted by #Gainsborough but whilst Sancho was painted black & the queen’s features were depicted as #African her skin was painted white💜 The gravestones were incorporated into the gardens & the gardens #haunted by the #ghosts of the #Eccentrics #authors & #artists of #Mayfairs #history from #handel & #fannyburney to #nancymitford ⚜️if you need repose from the grandeur of #fashionisart @londonfashionweek @pamhoggfashion @fashion4relief @fashionscout @malanbreton @londonfashionweek2019 take a seat amongst the ghosts of Mayfair past 1630-1842 ⚜️🥂🍾⚜️photograph @muirvidler (at Mount Street Gardens) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2bsOfOAX6g/?igshid=16taja0rmpwt5
