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W I L T S H I R E , E N G L A N D
T h e R i g h t H o n o u r a b l e T h e E a r l o f P e m b r o k e
Wilton was given to the already ancient family of Lord Pembroke when he
was King Henry VIII’s Master of the Horse, Captain General of the English
arm in France, a Knight of the Garter, and married to the Queen’s sister.
The painter Holbein influenced the design of the then-new castle. Queen
Elizabeth I mightily relished her visits to the Lords Pembroke at Wilton, where
the combination of power, politics and military command blended well with
poetry and theatre, pleasing her then as it pleases the Pembroke family now.
Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and “As You Like It” were both first performed
at Wilton. Chippendale himself produced unique works of splendour inspired
by the surrounds that are still enjoyed by the energetic film producer Lord
Pembroke, the Right Honourable Henry George Charles Alexander, 17th Earl
of Pembroke, and 14th Earl of Montgomery in Wales.
