What happened to the Queens House during the Civil War?
Queen Henrietta escaped to France while the Civil War was being fought in England, and it was there that she heard the news that her husband had been executed. Many paintings and statues were removed from the house while she was away. Henrietta did not go back to England during the eleven years that the country was without a royal family, but after her son Charles II was restored to the throne, she finally returned from exile and came to live at the Queen’s House in 1662.