The Queen’s House, designed by Inigo Jones was built between 1616 and 1635, and is the earliest english building in the Italian Renaissance Palladian style. (influenced by the Villa medicea di Poggio a Caiano, and designed by Giuliano de Sangallo) It was commissioned by Anne of Denmark, wife of King James 1. It is surmised that James 1 gave the manor of Greenwich to Anne in apology for having sworn at her in public, after she accidentally shot one of his favourite dogs while hunting in 1614. Building of the house ceased in1618 when Ann became ill and died in 1619. Charles 1, James' son gave the house to his queen, Henrietta Maria, daughter of Henri IV of France. The house is famous for the marble floor and the ironwork of the "tulip stairs" the first centrally, unsupported spiral staircase in Britain.
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Marble Floor
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| Cutty Sark |
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