This property has hosted many important guests—such as the Duke of Bavaria in 1570—and businesses, including the Shah of Iran’s braid maker in 1871, since it opened in 1528.

Prince Rupert (1619-1682), Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Cumberland and Bavaria, was buried on 6th December 1682 in a vault with his mother in the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel in ...