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Title: Guide to the Palace of Westminster
Year: 1911 (1910s)
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Publisher: London : Warrington
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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m to the House of Peers when HisMajesty opens or prorogues Parliament. Three tiers ofplatforms extend along its entire length on these occasionsThe walls above these seats are to be decorated with a chrono-logically arranged series of subjects from English history—twofresco paintings by D. Maclise, R.A., The Meeting ofWellington and Blucher, after Waterloo, and The Deathof Nelson, have already been completed in the large panels(see appendix)—while a band of shields emblazoned with thearms of the Kings of England and Scotland runs immediatelybelow the windows. These windows are filled with stainedglass of appropriate design, while a splendidly panelled anddecorated ceiling crowns the whole. In the niches of the door-ways and bav windows are placed gilded statues of the EnglishKings and Queens as follows— SOUTH DOOR. WEST DOOR. Henry V. and Elizabeth. William III. and Anne. NORTH DOOR. BAY WINDOW. Alfred and William I. Richard I. and Edward III. B. PHILIP. Sculptor Page Thirty-two
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>- — <J 0 u.zH The inscriptions bordering the squares of the elaborately tiledfloor present difficulties to many visitors, but may be decipheredwith a little care-DOMINE SALVAM FAC REG1NAMVICTORIAM (0 Lord, preserve Queen Victoria), and COEREGIN/E IN MANU DOMINI (T he heart of the Queenis in the hand of the Lord). It was in this Gallery that the State Trial of Earl Russelltook place on July 18th, 1901, the first State Trial in thepresent building. On November 9th, 1929, it was the scene ofa dinner at which the Prince of Wales presided over a gatheringof 321 wearers of the Victoria Cross ; and in 1930 it served asthe initial meeti lg place of the Naval Disarmament Conference. Leaving the Royal Gallery we enter THE PRINCES CHAMBER, which serves as a kind of ante-room to the House of Lords. The large doorway on the South side, the principal entrancefrom the Royal Gallery, is of lofty pitch, richly decorated,and deeply recessed. Four shields, with crowns over them inalto-

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