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Tradition has conferred on this apartment the name of the Queen’s Room. Catherine Parr, the last queen of Henry VIII., is said to have occupied this apartment for several nights after the king’s death.

Y, regal the chamber, and stately the gloom That the old oaken panels fling over the room; The carving is gilded—the hangings are rare; Yet, stranger, I warn thee—Oh! slumber not there.

For when the lamp dies in the dead of the night, And when the wan moon has exhausted her light, By that mirror of silver a pale lady stands, And rends her long tresses and wrings her white hands.