The Royal Hospital Chelsea is an old soldiers' retirement home and nursing home for some 300 veterans of the British Army. Founded as an almshouse — the ancient sense of the word "hospital" — by King
Figure Court of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
An inscription on the statue of a Pensioner outside the hospital
Sir Stephen Fox (1627–1716), the inspiration behind the founding of the hospital, and a generous benefactor. Portrait by John James Baker, collection of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
Sergeant William Hiseland, [1620–1732] an English Civil War cavalier and one of the first pensioners to be admitted to the Royal Hospital in London
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime
Royal Hospital Chelsea
…an Ante-Chamber. Both the Council Chamber and Ante-Chamber can be hired for private functions and weddings. Margaret Thatcher Infirmary The graves of Margaret and Denis Thatcher, whose ashes were interred at the infirmary in 2013 and 2003 respectively The Margaret Thatcher Infirmary houses around 100 Chelsea…
Studio portrait, c. 1995–96
10 Downing Street, c. 1979
2009 photograph of her father's former shop