Cotehele
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Cotehele is a medieval house with Tudor additions, situated in the parish of Calstock in the east of Cornwall, England, and now belonging to the National Trust. It is a rambling granite and slate-ston
Courtyard of Cotehele House
The house from the south. The chapel bellcote and the north-west tower are in the background.
The great hall, facing the high table
The north-west tower (left) and private apartments (right)
George III
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George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. During his reign, the Acts of Union 1800 merged Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom. He was
Cotehele
…filling Cotehele with historic furniture and tapestries, and presenting it as a Romantic and antiquarian attraction. Visitors to the house included King George III and Queen Charlotte (1789), and Queen Victoria (1846 and 1856). Victoria thought the tapestried rooms 'very cheerless,' as she noted in her diary. After…
Coronation portrait, 1762
George (right), his brother Edward, and their tutor, Francis Ayscough (later Dean of Bristol), by Richard Wilson, c. 1749
Pastel of George as Prince of Wales by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1754
Wedding of George and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, oil sketch by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1761