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The last monarch to stay at Havering was Charles I, when he came to meet his mother-in-law, Marie de' Medici, Queen Mother of France. On her journey from Harwich to London, she was met by Charles at Moulsham Hall, Chelmsford, on November 8th, 1638. The two long trains of coaches and horsemen, preceded by twelve trumpeters, rode towards London. The Queen Mother slept that night at Gidea Hall, Romford, and the procession then continued its journey. The print...shows "La Sortie de la Reyne" and her son-in-law from Gidea Hall.
By this time the palace was in decay. It was completely ruinous by Commonwealth times, and the remnants of the adjacent palace of Pyrgo were pulled down in the last century.
1 Print and accompanying text reproduced from the 1953 Coronation souvenir Royalty in Essex by kind permission of Essex County Council.
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