The Rotunda Rooms

The Library walls are lined with a huge book collection, and show the curves of the rotunda. Lady Theodora, the 4th Marchioness, loved her husband's family and became its historian. She was instrumental in the cataloguing and conservation of the many collectibles, and she had the books rebound.

Dinner was a grand affair with the huge silver collection.

The Drawing Room is pink, to appeal to the ladies who withdrew there for tea after dinner. Displayed there is a miniature of the beloved Princess Charlotte of Wales. She would have become Queen after her father died, but she died before him, shortly after giving birth. This is why Victoria, a cousin, became queen.Read more