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2 unusual facts about Royal Wardrobe


Royal Wardrobe

The Royal Wardrobe (also known as the "Great Wardrobe") was a building located on what is now Queen Victoria Street in the City of London, near Blackfriars.

Samuel Pepys records that a party of children sang to Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich when he was appointed as Master of the Royal Wardrobe during the Restoration but he was unmoved, the orphans were evicted, and the Wardrobe resumed its usual function.



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The royal "wardrobe" was a store of the Queen's possessions bearing little resemblance to a modern wardrobe.