Royal Hospital

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Royal Hospital

hospital, Kensington and Chelsea, London, United Kingdom

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Christopher Wren
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…1682 Charles II founded the Royal Hospital at Chelsea for the reception of veterans superannuated from his standing army. The idea doubtless derived from Louis XIV’s Hôtel des Invalides (1671–76) in Paris, but Wren’s building, completed about 1690, is very different from its prototype. Charles II died in 1685. In…
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…1682 Charles II founded the Royal Hospital at Chelsea for the reception of veterans superannuated from his standing army. The idea doubtless derived from Louis XIV’s Hôtel des Invalides (1671–76) in Paris, but Wren’s building, completed about 1690, is very different from its prototype. Charles II died in 1685. In…
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