Palaces & Parks of Richmond & Kew Vol 1

Richmond and Kew share a long history as an important royal estate, the site of a succession of palaces and parks from the original manor house and the two medieval royal palaces of Shene to the great Tudor palace in the Old Deer Park. This volume takes the story up to 1660. �??Mr. Cloake has managed to combine a readable style and over 200 illustrations with scholarly and authoritative research ...�?� The Richmond and Twickenham Times