A STATELY MANSION

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 52, 25 November 1929, Page 10

A STATELY MANSION

PRINCESS MARY’S NEW HOME Dominion Special Service. London, October 10. Princess Mary presently will find herself mistress of Harewood House. She will be sorry to leave Goldsborough Hall, which she has made into a home after her own heart, and the gardens of which she has greatly improved. In Harewood House, however, she will find herself in surroundings eminently suited as a background for the King’s only daughter. There is, as King Edward remarked when he stayed there, a Royal air about the place. The great gallery of Harewood House, for example, is seventy-six feet long and very wide and lofty, but not by any means too large for the treasures it contains. The ceiling was painted by Rose, and has plaques by /Angelica Kauffinann. Other ceilings of principal rooms show examples of the art of Angelica’s second husband Zucchi, and of Rebecci. There are fine family portraits by Reynolds, Iloppner, and Lawrence, furniture that belonged to Marie Antoinette, and throughout the mansion no fewer than seventy-six mahogany doors made of wood from the Lascelles plantations in Barbados that founded the family fortunes. Two sons of the Colonel Lascelles who fought with Cromwell went to the West Indies when the Restoration camo, became exceedingly rich, bought Harewood estate, and built the house. The house, set amid some of the most beautiful scenery in Whqrfedale (or in England), took twelve years to build, and cost the then large sum of £120,000. It is very much in the Vanbrough style, but was enlarged and improved by Sir Charles Barry. The state rooms gave employment to Robert Adam and Chippendale. The gardens, laid out by “Capability Brown” at great cost, are magnificent, and contain the famous “Tokay” vine—an immense plant. The Italian garden on the south terrace dates from Barry’s time, is 250 yards long, slopes down to a lake, and in summer is a blaze of exquisite colour..