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New Palace House
private wing rooms open
for visits to Beaulieu
More private rooms in Palace House are to open for visits to Beaulieu this Easter for the start of the
2025 season.
Work is currently being completed and visitors will be able
to look around a number of themed rooms which were
once part of Edward, Lord Montagu’s private apartment.
Jenny Adin-Christie who made lace panels for the
Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding dress. She also produced
an intricate satin bedspread featuring a gold braided ‘M’
surmounted by a baron’s coronet. In the canopy of the
bed, a canvas work moon by Sarah de Rousset-Hall looks
down from the centre of the midnight blue lining. In the
adjoining bathroom, students used griffins, stags and
eagles from the Montagu coat of arms for a bespoke
wallpaper design.
Ten years after his passing, his son will open rooms which
were refurbished as part of a project with the interior
design department at Solent University in Southampton.
Lord Montagu said: “The design of these bedrooms and
bathrooms comes from a very fruitful collaboration with students who came up with some wonderful ideas to ensure
that each room has a distinctly different theme. They took
their inspiration from the gardens of Palace House, Montagu
family history and the Solent which borders the estate.”
Meadow Room
Students Bethan Humphries, Rosie Rowe and Amy
Shepherd brought the outside into Palace House for the
Meadow Room, where painted rose trees fill the arched
recesses on each side of the bed and birds ‘fly’ around blue
skies at the top of the walls. The theme continues on the
ceiling, where a faux opening to an imaginary sky frames
a stylised golden sun shining from its centre.
Take a walk through the rooms . . .
Heraldry Room
The first of the rooms commemorates some of Lord
Montagu’s ancestors. The heraldic shields of 70 of his forbears were photographed from an ancient hand-painted
scroll, then reworked and arranged chronologically for a
frieze around the top of the walls. The design by Lola-Mia
Gurr and Sara Riofrio continues below with a lattice pattern echoing the Montagu heraldic device, three lozenges.
For the bathroom, flowers were picked from Palace House
gardens, pressed and photographed to form the components of a custom-made wallpaper. The shower cubicle
incorporates tiles by Lord Montagu’s mother, Belinda,
depicting the view she enjoyed of, and from, her home at
Longdown. Other references to the garden theme include
a planter’s dibber light pull, metal leaved chandelier and
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At the centre of the room, the four-poster bed features an
embroidered griffin crest on the headboard, the work of
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