Inside the Queen's House, Greenwich SE10
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- The Queen's House in Greenwich, south-east London is one of the most important buildings in British architectural history.
Designed by Inigo Jones in the early 17th century, the house is a thing of true beauty, representing the point at which architecture in Britain began to be regarded as an art-form in its own right.
In this video, we'll be exploring the history behind the Queen's House and, thanks to a kind invitation from the wonderful folk at the 'Royal Museums Greenwich Collection', I'll be showing you around outside the usual opening hours- which essentially means we're going to have this gorgeous building all to ourselves!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:20 Origins
03:26 Inigo Jones
04:54 Building the Queen's House
06:00 The Great Hall
10:37 The Tulip Stairs
12:25 The Tulip Stairs Ghost 👻
13:18 Art at the Queen's House
15:20 From Queen's House to Asylum
16:30 The Queen's House Today
18:18 Outro
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Sincere thanks to the Royal Museums Greenwich Collection for offering the robslondon channel this wonderful opportunity- and extra special thanks too to Ruby Moulton for facilitating such an early morning visit!
If you'd like to visit the Queen's House (which I'd highly recommend), you can find further information on their website- and remember, best of all, entry is free!
www.rmg.co.uk/queens-house
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Images used in this video:
Painting of Rome: The Walters Art Museum (Creative Commons)
Villa Godi image: Dogears (Creative Commons)
Queen's House bird's eye view (Google)
The Sovereign of the Seas Painting: Royal Greenwich Museums Collection
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I have yet to be even mildly disappointed with any of your videos Rob. I’m amazed at the way you find new subjects for us. One of your skills is to keep your presentation simple and balanced. Please don’t depart from that approach. Kind regards and thank you.
Bless you Mark, really appreciate your kind words- it’s support like yours which keeps me going. Cheers mate and stay well.
Well done Rob. Another pleasing history lesson.
Thank you 😊
One of my fav places around LONDON....The entire area around Greenwich is interesting !
I've watched many of your videos and they're all amazing! Thank you for the hard work you put into entertaining and educating the citizens of TH-cam. I wish this were a series on PBS (very cool US public television group with the best programming). You're a great presenter and really make these historical people and places come alive!
Bless you S Campbell, that means a great deal to me, thank you my friend.
Very honored to be compared to PBS! Ken Burns documentaries are one of my inspirations 😊
Thanks again and stay well.
I agree - your videos are real treasures and also fun for armchair travelers! My list of must-see places has grown much longer for any future trip🌞
I've passed it on a boat but stupidly never visited and now never will. So the tour was great chance to see the artistic and architectural brilliance of Inigo Jones and in a past live was lucky to dine in his other wonderful building, the Banqueting Hall. It was greatly enjoyed and congratulate you and/or your cameraman/woman for the exquisite shots of the staircase. It also stirred some happy memories. Thank you.
Rob
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Wow! Would love to dine there 😉
The last time I visited the Queens house my wife and I took her younger brother as he was doing a project for school. He is now in his forties and I am a lot slower! Will have to make sure we get back again,had forgotten how beautiful that staircase is. Thanks for another great vid. Keep safe. C.
Ha ha! Thanks Clive, stay well 😉
Thank you for this video, I'm planning a trip to Greenwich next month. I'm going to make the Queens House my first stop.
It’s a pleasure, hope you enjoy your visit.
Thanks for another cracking vlog so beautiful and interesting 🧐
I really appreciate that David, thank you.
Again so much research for which this watcher is very grateful. Thank you 💕🦆
Thank you Pam 😊
Superb video of a beautiful building, thank you. Can you believe that lived in London for over 20 years and never visited Greenwich.
Ha ha! London is a big place 😉 Cheers Reaper and thanks again for the donation- really do appreciate it mate. Stay well.
I feel like I should say "this was terrible" just to break my pattern of praising your videos... but this was another excellent post. Just the right amount of historical detail, just enough blend of historical/current, and just enough to be... well. Brilliant. You are spoiling us with these videos sir!
Thank you so much Patrick, that means a lot to me. Stay well.
Thank you, Rob, for another little gem about a somewhat larger gem.
Thank you Nicole :-)
Very interesting but kind of sad that it was never really home to anyone. That staircase is amazing. Do love a good staircase.
Agreed!
"We've got it all to ourselves " 😂...that will just you and me and our 13,074 mates then ? 😂 Did we all get here on the Thames River Sightseeing Cruises. That is how I got here many years ago. Ah, happy times ! I have recently been hearing about the Dean's Stairs ( through the Dean's Door around the side of St Paul's Cathedral) Not as beautiful as the Tulip Stairs but interesting to compare the architecture. Thank you so much for the super video....masterly presentation 👍
Ha ha! 😉 Cheers John!
Brilliant video, Rob. We had a bit of a spooky experience there once. We used to go Greenwich park and often we'd visit the Queen's Horse. One dark winter afternoon, many years ago, as we walked the colonnade, we felt a very strange atmosphere. Few people were around but a woman approached us and out of the blue, asked if my husband was in the military. He said no, and she then said she said moments before, she observed him walking in front of her in full military uniform! Then she just disappeared!
😳😳😳 Thanks for the kind comment…. And what a creepy experience!!
Wow, wow and wow! Learnt so much. It’s absolutely great learning history with you. Huge thank you 🙏
Thank you so much Gill 😊 Hope you’re keeping well.
Brilliant video to watch on a Sunday evening.
Really appreciate that Paul, thank you.
Mary II did a wonderful thing be having the view of the Queens House left unblocked. 🔱🏳🌈
Beautiful building. If I do visit it will be in broad daylight to avoid any ghostly encounters. Great tour Rob. Thanks.
Ha ha! Thanks David ;-)
This is an especially lovely video about a period I love. Thanks so much
Thank you so much Diana, I truly appreciate your kind support; that means a lot to me. Stay well and thanks again! :-)
Watched this with my afternoon tea and Hobnobs! Very interesting, and well made video. Thanks for sharing!
Ha ha! It's a pleasure! Thanks for watching :-)
Thank you for another well made, interesting and professional film. It is always with anticipation, I see another Robslondon video come up.
Thank you so much Mike, stay well sir.
Thanks Rob. I’ve never yet managed to visit Greenwich but the historical films you have made ensure it’s on my visiting list next time I’m back in the UK.
Thanks again mate. Very enjoyable and informative as usual
Thanks so much Doug. Hope you make it there soon! Cheers and stay well.
Love your videos Rob, looking forward to the next one.
Thank you so, so much Reaper55; your support means a great deal to me. Really kind of you; cheers and stay well.
A house for being sworn at? Sign me up.
Ha ha! ;-)
I hoped you would include the ghost photo. I wonder how many photos of that staircase in the hope of catching something. Thank you for another superb film.
Thank you so much Kerry... and yes, good point! Stay well.
Thanks for the film Rob and yes I will be visiting
Thanks so much Paul. Stay well sir.
At first I thought that portrait of Queen Anne was a doctored picture of princess Anne!!!
Once again. Great video, excellent knowledge.
With all the research you must put in I’m not sure how you manage to put a new video every week?!?!?
Ha ha! Thanks Cossie 😉 It’s hard work but I enjoy it, and the support of good people like you keeps me going. Stay well mate.
Thanks so much Rob once again for another interesting, absorbing video. 😊
Thanks Rob , very interesting and such a beautiful building. All the best form down under mate 👍🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Much appreciated Peter; cheers mate
Thank you Rob. This was splendid. As a Londoner by birth, I am ashamed to say that I have never visited The Queen's House or The Banqueting Hall, both by the genius Inigo Jones. The tulip staircase is quite spectacular, as are the ceilings. I had to chuckle at the similarity between the Queen's House and a motorway service stop.
Thank you John! Hope you get to see them for real soon…
Another very fun and interesting video. Thanks!
Thanks! 😊
I love Greenwich especially the NMM. A truly educational video, nice work Rob!
Thank you Russell 😄
Again, superb content based upon impeccable research. I regret I missed The Queen's House on my last visit to England, but will certainly stop in when next I am there.
Many thanks Paul! Hope you make it there soon.
Hi Rob, another well researched offering for us. Now those Tulip stairs would have done me in 😮 How very civilised to have a covered walkway to keep you dry 😎 too. Cheers DougT
Ha ha, cheers Doug! 😉
SPENCER HOUSE might make an interesting documentary if possible....It is a GEM in Green Park....!
Interesting one Richard, I'll make a note!
What a beautiful house. Those stairs are stunning but made me feel dizzy because of the height. I felt sorry for the cleaner doing the floor in the great hall. Really showed how early you were. I think the early light made the house more beautiful. The work that went into it is amazing. However good a friend I would never have given the ceiling panels to someone else. The work on the grand hall floor is stunning. It was clever how the house was built around the road. The artwork on the ceiling that was left is something else. I can never get over how someone paints that at that height and so perfectly. I am glad you are getting the respect of other people to let you see places with more detail than the general public. As always very interesting video. Looking forward to the next one 😀.
Lovely comment Lesley, many thanks indeed for taking the time to write.
Thank you Rob ! Excellent, as always!
Thanks Annika ☺️
The Queen's House is one of the most under-appreciated (and one of my favorite) places in London.
Thank you; yes, much agreed.
Thoroughly enjoyable video, well done 👍
Thank you 😊
Another top class video from you Rob somewhere else to add to my ever growing list of places to visit London again.
Thank you Tony!
Never even heard of the Queen's House before (though I do know the Armada Portrait), so this was a fascinating eye-opener. As for the 'ghost photo', I smell a rat: it's suspicious that the so-called ghosts appear to be in the centre of of the picture, almost as though they were the intended subject of the photograph! And if you'd wanted to take a picture of the staircase, there are far better angles and locations that would capture its scale far better than the one in which the 'ghosts' appear. It seems far too staged to be taken seriously. Of course some people - including Conan Doyle - were taken in the by the so-called Cottingley Fairies, and those images had been cut from a packet of washing powder, as I recall. Great stuff, Rob - these videos absolutely make my Sunday evenings!
Wonderful comment! Thanks and stay well 😉
How wonderful - thank you, Rob! As much as it would be good to still have the old palace of the Tudors still around, I must say that the stunning symmetry in white of all the buildings, now extant, are a beautiful wonder. It would be nice to see the old great hall paintings put back in their rightful place, along with original paint on surrounding beams, but the building's present lack of decor does have an appeal in its own right. A road through a royal house, or any house... my goodness! The Tulip Staircase! I first knew about it, not realising where it was really located, in 1973 when I read Peter Underwood's book, "Haunted London". I still have that very much re-read & tattered paperback in my library, now, and it started a lifetime of enjoying a good ghost story! I have never seen a ghost, myself, though! Sadly, we never did visit the Queen's House, nor Greenwich, whenever we went to London. Must try next time. I honestly need to live in the UK for months & months to see all the fantastic sites it offers, some very obscure and unfrequented by the masses. Looking forward to your next presentation!
What a wonderful comment Mistydazzle! Thank you so much for taking the time to write this, I enjoyed reading it very much! Stay well 😊
Good video, very interesting, ghost quite real looking, 😊😊
Thanks Christine 👻
Hello Rob
Another excellent video. Have been to the Queen's house a couple of times. Greenwich has so much to offer. There is a famous picture of Henry VIII when he was young there is well. I have also taken a picture with a ghost in it which I took at Rose manor in Jamaica in 1988. They did say they had ghost.
We did not get to Greenwich this last trip. Thanks for showing us. Take Care Chris and Sandra of Canada.
Thanks Chris and Sandra... would love to see your ghost photo!
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Hello Rob I will find it and organize it to get you a copy. Off to work. Take Care Chris and Sandra of Canada.
@@ChrisSmith-ls7mb Wonderful! Thanks guys ;-)
Awesome, what a great house the tulip staircase just devine. As for the photo definitely not your normal snap shot, strange phenomenon, but it's old do plausible. Very good research as always. We didn't visit that as we did the Observatory and the naval boys cos of dad. Thank you rob❤
Great comment Tracy, thank you 😉
Great photography
Thanks Andrew!
Great video, thanks for sharing.
It’s a pleasure Stephen, thanks for watching
Great vid Rob, what a wonderful staircase.
I worked (selling Photocopiers for Canon UK) in Greenwich and across to Battersea in the early 90s, Greenwich is such a lovely town, Battersea less so LOL
Ha ha ;-) Many thanks Michael, stay well.
Rob Thank you very much for another superlative video excellent research and included some other views about London. Sir Christopher Wren must have taken inspiration from the Tulip stair case for in the right hand tower of St Paul's Cathedral there is a very similar set of stairs know as the Deans stair case ( you see these on an official guided tour )
Cheers Butch; yes- good point!
Many congratulations Rob, I hope that you feel proud if your work and how it continues to evolve, entertain and inform. I truly feel that work like this deserves to be considered a documentary rather than just a video. Many thanks for your commitment. I always look forward with anticipation to receiving updates and notifications . Best regards, Lance
That means a lot to me Lance, thank you so much. Cheers and stay well.
Thank you Rob! I was lucky enough to visit the Queen's House myself in 2019 and see the Armada portrait. It wasn't very busy the day I went, so I was lucky to get great views of the Hall and the Tulip Stairs as well. I always learn so much from your videos: thanks so much for the detail about the history and the architecture. Fantastic.
Thanks so much Michael, really appreciate your kind words. Stay well.
Another top video Rob, I use to take my girls here a lot when they were younger as money was tight and there was plenty of free stuff to do and see, as for the ghost pics I would say 100% genuine as we took some pics at beaulieu many years ago and had the same experience with strangers dressed in old clothing and hats and we were the only ones in the room, many thanks again.
Thanks so much Mark.... and blimey! Would love to see that photo! Stay well ;-)
I will have to look them out and send them to you
@@markcarson8 If you can please Mark that would be incredible! Cheers!
I didn't know Greenwich was such in interesting area of London. The videos you have made there have certainly inspired me to spend some time exploring there next time I am in London. Thanks again Rob. Brilliant!
Bless you Paul, much appreciated. Cheers and stay well.
Very interesting as always. Cheers Rob
Much appreciated Tony; thanks for watching.
These videos just get better and better Rob! What a beautiful place - particularly that staircase. I wonder whether there are any theories about that ghost photo - it would be fascinating to know if there are any historical links. I’m very interested to see the Battle of Sole Bay tapestry - Southwold being my favourite place!
Such a lovely comment Annette, thank you so much for taking the time to write. Stay well and hope you see the tapestry soon!
Nicely done, filmed and narrated.
I really appreciate that Mykul, thank you.
A lovely presentation. Well done.
Really appreciate that, thank you.
I must compliment you yet again on your knowledge and, indeed, on your production skills. The way you manage seamlessly to blend still images, video, narration and pleasing, non-intrusive, music really is exceptional. Are you a videographer or an historian by training (or, quite probably, both)?
That means so much to me William. Thank you my friend.
I’m neither of those things to be honest, although folk from those fields have inspired me! Until a few years ago I was a London cabbie, which marked my true education in this city’s history.
Thanks again and stay well, I truly appreciate your kind words.
@@Robslondon A pleasure, Sir!
Another fine video Rob
Thanks Paul!
Wonderful tour thanks!
Thank you so much for watching!
This was a joy. Loads of fascinating facts and some of your camera shots were lovely. Symmetry is so ascetically pleasing. That stairway is gorgeous. As for the ghost, who knows but it’s very intriguing. Great video Rob
Thank you so much Dave. Stay well.
Super video as always getting better every time.The black and white marble flooring is superb,laid without today’s technology.I have heard the name Indigo Jones for a long time but never realised who He was,keep up the good work 👍👍
Lovely comment Nicholas, thank you so much for the kind words 😊 Stay well.
Lovely video, will try to visit on river trip this summer 😊
Thank you Helene, hope you make it there soon.
Wonderful video, Rob! I'm staying near Tower Bridge in September, so I'll be sure to take the Thames Clipper to Greenwich for a day's wandering. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you- and yes, be sure to do that, that will make for an excellent trip!
Thank you Rob for another fascinating look at yhe delights of London. After saying the tulip staircase was impractical as there were no resting places, I couldn't help but notice that even the mysterious ghost in the photo looked exhausted walking up them.
😂 Good point!!
It was great and interesting content. I love it as always. Thanks Robert. 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
Thank you Sharon 😉
I’m late to the party this week! How fabulous getting the place to yourself! Thank you for another wonderful history lesson Rob and showing us around a fantastic building 😊
It's a pleasure, thank you AliB! Stay well.
Superb video…
I really appreciate that, thank you. Stay well.
Thanks Rob! A close friend of mine here in London has a partner from Portsmouth, a city where it's also difficult to get away from historic stuff. After watching your video, well researched as always, I think we really need to visit this place.
Many thanks Peter! Yes, Portsmouth is packed with history, I've been meaning to visit there as it's been many years since I've done so. Hope you make it to the Queen's House soon.
You are the Old Dover Road to my SUV collection.
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Another very well crafted video Rob, with surgically precise music choices. I always recommend Greenwich to my colleagues here in Germany, giving instructions on the pronunciation of "Greenwich" on the way.
Thank you much, lovely comment 😊
Another informative, fun and interesting video Robert. Thanks!
Thank you 😊
Am excellent video! Thanks!! I hope you'll excuse my correcting your Italian pronunciation: Gentileschi is pronounced jen-teel-ESK-ee.
Ah ok! Thank you ;-)
All those buildings were also used in the Les Miserables film.
Ah! Interesting, thank you.
Love your videos. At 3:44 I think you mean his influence can not be OVER stated. It doesn't make sense otherwise.
Thanks
Hi Rob, what's at the top of the Tulip Staircase?
Really good question! I’m not sure as the public can’t climb it… I’ll try and find out next time I’m in Greenwich
Henry VIII born at the Palace of Valencia ? Is it really Greenwich Palace, as stated here on the Historic Royal Palaces website, or does the same palace have 2 names ? .
Henry was born at Greenwich Palace on 28 June 1491. He had an elder brother Arthur (1486-1502), and two sisters, Margaret (1489-1541) and Mary (1496-1533). All hopes for a Tudor dynasty rested on the elder boy Arthur.
It's the same place.
@@Robslondon Okay thanks Rob.
No problem @@bobbybigboyyes
BLIMEY CAN'T BELIEVE ME LUCK TODAY🗣️
Just watched sunset at Battersea Bridge, had a beer played music, lovely, Fantastic Fact's 🎬 about a place I long to visit far out fella, what a time in our history this was????
What if she hadn't died?? Yeah right don't even think of it???
THE FIRST CIVIL WAR IN OUR HISTORY, FOR A REASON 🤔😱☠️🧐🆘🇬🇧LESS WE FORGET 🙏💯🇬🇧🗣️ .,....................
LOOK WHAT THEY DONE TO MY SONG MAR, LOOK WHAT THEY DONE TO MY SONG🆘💯🇬🇧🗣️🙏😇
Edit-the first wall street crash???????? Was the TULIPS FROM AMSTERDAM 🤑🎬🔚
DON'T FORGET 🤩😍🙏
Cheers Gary 😉
FFS will someone give this man the KEYS to LONDON 😍🇬🇧💯👍🗣️🙏✌️
Even Belgian marble is tougher than comparable Italian.😂😂😂😂
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Hello. My name is Inigo Jones. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
Any signs of ghosts when you visited?
Ha ha! Unfortunately not... although it did feel eerie there being alone and knowing about that sighting...