Just peeking out from the Thames at low tide during the Richmond Draw-Off the remains of the old Tudor/Stuart jetty for Richmond Palace, monarchs would have disembarked here from vessels. The river was once the safest & quickest way to travel as roads were difficult & dangerous.
Just peeking out from the Thames at low tide during the Richmond Draw-Off the remains of the old Tudor/Stuart jetty for Richmond Palace, monarchs would have disembarked here from vessels. The river was once the safest & quickest way to travel as roads were difficult & dangerous.
Just peeking out from the Thames at low tide during the Richmond Draw-Off the remains of the old Tudor/Stuart jetty for Richmond Palace, monarchs would have disembarked here from vessels. The river was once the safest & quickest way to travel as roads were difficult & dangerous.
Just peeking out from the Thames at low tide during the Richmond Draw-Off the remains of the old Tudor/Stuart jetty for Richmond Palace, monarchs would have disembarked here from vessels. The river was once the safest & quickest way to travel as roads were difficult & dangerous.
Just peeking out from the Thames at low tide during the Richmond Draw-Off the remains of the old Tudor/Stuart jetty for Richmond Palace, monarchs would have disembarked here from vessels. The river was once the safest & quickest way to travel as roads were difficult & dangerous.
Thought to be in this part of the river that 18 yr old Prince Henry Frederick, heir to the throne & eldest son of James I of England (James VI of Scotland) & Anne of Denmark, swam one day while at Richmond Palace. He caught typhoid, dying a few weeks later in St James’ Palace.
This is Isaac Oliver’s glorious painting of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, in the National Gallery. Intelligent, cultured, handsome, the King that never was. He oversaw the creation of Italianate water gardens in Richmond Palace using French & Italian engineers & designers.
Strange the savage/unpredictable twists & turns of history. After Henry Frederick’s untimely death from typhoid, his younger brother Charles became king as Charles I. Temperamentally unsuited to the role of monarch, tragically executed in 1649 outside Banqueting House, Whitehall
There are a few artist’s impressions of Richmond Palace in all its glory, but only the gatehouse entrance to the building remains to this day as the palace was sold after Charles I’s execution.

Thought to be Elizabeth I’s favourite home and where she died on 24th March 1603.
There are a few artist’s impressions of Richmond Palace in all its glory, but only the gatehouse entrance to the building remains to this day as the palace was sold after Charles I’s execution.Thought to be Elizabeth I’s favourite home and where she died on 24th March 1603.
There are a few artist’s impressions of Richmond Palace in all its glory, but only the gatehouse entrance to the building remains to this day as the palace was sold after Charles I’s execution.Thought to be Elizabeth I’s favourite home and where she died on 24th March 1603.
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