THE KING’S SUN ROOM.

Wairarapa Age, 18 March 1929, Page 7

THE KING’S SUN ROOM.

’Craigwell House, where the King is convalescing, is on. the out’skirt-s of the ■old-world Sussex village of Aidwick, about miles from Bognor. The rolling South Downs form a restful and beautiful background, of green. It hias its own cinema, ballroom, and magnificent organ and has been described as 4 ‘ one of the most wonderfully equipped on England’s stately homes. ”

By an electrical arrangement the strains of the organ, which cost thousands, can be hoard in any room in the house by the mere pressure of a switch. There is also a << sun room,” used for sleeping in the open. This is a circular room, and has been used +’or the convalescence of more than one invalid, among them, ono or two people recovering from, pleurisy, as it is set among pine trees.

Each of the bedrooms in. the front oif, ’ the house has its own bathroom, and dressing room as well a balcony, and from all there is a magn/ificent sea view. As usually run there are twenty servants in the house, and tnc kitchens are particularly well arranged, having been modernised in every way only a year or two ago. AU the rooms are connected with a house telephone. Most of the furniture at •Craigwell is good, unostentatious and modern, but there is a very beautiful .set of Chippendale chairs in the dining-room, r. ./hole furnished with Chinese iacquerd and one room completely furnished in the early Victorian manner. The floors arc all of parquet, with very lovely rugs strewn about, and the finest collection of glass pictures in the kingdom hangs in the billiard room.