PALACE FOR £3 A WEEK
SECRET DOOR AND TREASURE. VACANT FOR THREE YEARS. For little more than £3 a week one can rent a 400-year-old Tudor palace, complete with secret door and passage, ancient panelling, £2.000.000 hidden treasure (reputed), hot and cold water, modern bathrooms and all modern conveniences. The Old Palaeo, Richmond. Surrey, awaits a tenant, with vacant possession. Under its roof Cardinal Wolsey lived, Anne of Cleves retired and died after divorce from Homy VIII, ami Queen Mary spent her honeymoon witli Philip of Spain. The new tenant will not only bo able to live for £175 a .year in the house which was for centuries a home of England's kings and queens: he will also stand a chance of unearthing the hidden treasure.
Soon after the present palace was built, in 1-I9D. Henry VII buried a vast hoard of gold bullion and jewels in an underground tunnel which could only be reached by a secret door hidden in the panelling. No one has over been known lo find the treasure, but in 1932 thieves broke in and discovered how io open ilw secret door. They descended the secret stairs and began to dig out earth from the tunnel. They came on a brick wall which nothing short of dynamite could break through and (hey abandoned their task. ' The palace has stood empty for three veam.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1940, Page 6
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228PALACE FOR £3 A WEEK Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1940, Page 6
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