The VERY intriguing real reason that King Charles is speaking at this hospital chapel, revealed by Royal expert ROBERT HARDMAN
By ROBERT HARDMAN FOR THE DAILY MAIL
Published: 20:15 EST, 23 December 2024 | Updated: 20:18 EST, 23 December 2024
At the end of what has, by any standards, been an extraordinary royal year, the King has chosen an appropriately unusual if intriguing venue for this year’s Christmas broadcast.
Rather than address the nation and the Commonwealth from a favourite corner of a royal residence, he will speak from a small red-brick chapel hidden up a pedestrian alley behind an office block in London’s West End.
The choice of the Fitzrovia Chapel would certainly seem eccentric when it is viewed from the outside: a narrow Victorian structure surrounded by artificial grass, with no obvious religious function beyond its stained-glass windows.
However, this conceals an exuberant interior of marble and mosaics inspired by Byzantine church architecture. It also turned out to fit the bill perfectly as the King looked for somewhere which would tick several boxes.
Given that 2024 has been a royal year marked by medical challenges, with a diagnosis of cancer for both the King and the Princess of Wales, the monarch wanted somewhere with a healthcare link.
Originally built as the chapel for the Middlesex Hospital, the Fitzrovia is all that remains of that famous medical institution. Over the years, medical staff along with the sick, the dying, the bereaved would seek solace in there. Many medical marriages have set forth from these walls.
When the Middlesex was demolished in the 1990s and its operations moved to a new hospital up the road, the Grade II-listed annexe was renamed the Fitzrovia Chapel and preserved as a space for those of all faiths and none.
With no church or state funding, it survives on rentals for concerts and weddings – both civil and religious. It stands in a tiny garden square behind a modern office block, the British headquarters of the Estee Lauder cosmetics empire.
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The building now known as the Fitzrovia Chapel was built in 1891–92 as the Middlesex Hospital Chapel. Between 1929 and 1935 the decaying 18th-century hospital building was gradually demolished and rebuilt around the chapel.
返信削除After the Middlesex Hospital was amalgamated into University College Hospital, its hospital buildings other than the chapel were completely demolished 2008–15, being replaced by a new residential development. The Grade II*-listed edifice was preserved throughout the demolition and today the chapel stands within Pearson Square, a privately owned public space named after the chapel's architect, belonging to Jones Lang LaSalle.[
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