Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-04-02 | Page 22 | Historic Doorway in Palace Reopened

HISTORIC DOORWAY IN PALACE REOPENED IjNDON. April 1. After having I been closed for 1&7 years a blocked-up doorwas .if Hampton court palace has I been reopened. it connects Honrs vTITs ao-callcl Watching Chamber and the well-! well-! known Haunted Gallery. Thro igh it have passed Shakespeare, Charles 1 Queen Elizabeth. Mary. Queen of ts, Oliver Cromwoll and a host of Other historical porsonages. Catherine Howard one of Henry vni's consort ! passed through it on her way to thoi scaffold. Shakespeare's company performed 1 n the great hall of Hampton -art palace at Christmas. 1003 Hnd the rehearsals took place In' the' I Watching Chamber. I A feature of the 'Haunted Gallery-ms Gallery-ms a picture of tho "Wild Man and urn:.n brought by MHrtln Frobloh M from America which Is suppos-vl' to. have given Shakespeare his fir?t conception of Caliban. j The doorway was cloed by Klnr G re II in 1715. who had the a 1tx turned into a habitable room. 1