KING'S BATH CHAIR.
INTERESTING HISTORY.
MADE FOR QUEEN VICTORIA
The quaint bath-chair in which the King was recently photographed at Craigweil House, Bognor—as shown among the illustrations in another portion of to-day's Herald—has an interesting history. It was made in the early 'eighties for Queen Victoria, and it was the chair in which she attended scores of functions in the course of the last years of her life. It had many years of hard wear, but when Queen Victoria died in 1901 it was stored in the Royal mews at Buckingham Palace. It has only been used once or twice since.
Sir Dighton Probyn, V.C., Queen Alexandra's aged comptroller, was the last to use the chair after the war, when a march-past of V.C.'s was held at Buckingham Palace. The King would never part with it. When the King Was taken to Craigweil House the bath-chair was once again withdrawn from its retirement, thoroughly renovated, and sent to Bognor in a lorry.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20236, 22 April 1929, Page 12
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162KING'S BATH CHAIR. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20236, 22 April 1929, Page 12
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