Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Bentley Priory

On the northern edge of the Greater London area sits Bentley Priory, a stately home dating from the 1760's.  The residence of Dowager Queen Adelaide in the mid-1800's, it was used as the Royal Air Force command center during the WWII Battle of Britain in 1940.






George VI, 1941


Adelaide's bedroom, 1848


Adelaide, wife of William IV



Portrait of Queen Elizabeth at Bentley Priory, 1991

















Spitfire, 1940





 

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