Editing Kew (section)

===Royal associations with Kew===
[[File:West Hall, West Hall Road, Kew.jpg|thumb|[[West Hall, Kew|West Hall]] is Kew's only surviving 17th-century building apart from [[Kew Palace]].]]
[[File:Sarah Kirby (née Bull); John Joshua Kirby by Thomas Gainsborough.jpg|thumb|''Sarah Kirby (née Bull) and [[Joshua Kirby (artist)|Joshua Kirby]]'' by [[Thomas Gainsborough]]]]
[[File:Frederick, Prince of Wales, and his sisters by Philip Mercier.jpg|thumb|right|A musical portrait of [[Frederick, Prince of Wales]] and his sisters by [[Philip Mercier]], dated 1733, uses the Dutch House, the present-day Kew Palace, as its ''[[En plein air|plein-air]]'' backdrop.]]
[[File:Marianne North Gallery 821.JPG|thumb|Interior of [[Marianne North]] Gallery, Kew Gardens]]
[[File:Pissarro-Kew-greens-Lyon.jpg|thumb|French painter [[Camille Pissarro]]'s impression of [[Kew Green]] in 1892]]
[[File:Tomb_of_Johan_Zoffany.jpg|thumb|Tomb of the painter [[Johan Zoffany]] at [[St Anne's Church, Kew|St Anne's Church]]]]

====The Tudors and Stuarts====
[[Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester]] ({{circa}} 1460–1526) was granted lands at Kew in 1517. When he died in 1526 he left his Kew estates to his third wife, Eleanor, with the remainder to his son George.  In 1538, Sir George Somerset sold the house for £200 to [[Thomas Cromwell]] ({{circa}} 1485–1540), who resold it for the same amount to [[Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk]] ({{circa}} 1484–1545). Brandon had probably already inhabited Kew during the life of his wife [[Mary Tudor, Queen of France|Mary Tudor]],  daughter of [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]] and widow of the French king [[Louis XII]]. According to [[John Leland (antiquary)|John Leland]]'s ''Cygnea Cantio'' ("Swan Song"), she stayed in Kew (which he refers to as "Cheva")<ref>{{cite web | url=https://philological.cal.bham.ac.uk/swansong/trans.html| title=Cygnea Cantio | publisher=The Philological Museum | work=Cygnea Cantio (Swan Song) | year=1545 | access-date=31 May 2023 | author=[[John Leland (antiquary)|Leland, John]] (translated by Sutton, Dana F)}}</ref> for a time after her return to England.<ref name="Parishes">{{cite web | title=Parishes: Kew | work=A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3/pp482-487|year=1911 | access-date=15 June 2023|editor=[[Henry Elliot Malden|Malden, H E]] | location= London|pages=482–487}}</ref>

One of [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]'s closest friends, [[Henry Norris (courtier)|Henry Norris]] ({{circa}} 1482–1536), lived at Kew Farm,<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.5</ref> which was later owned by [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]'s favourite, [[Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester]] (1532–1588).<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.12</ref> This large [[palace|palatial house]] on the Thames riverbank predated the royal palaces of Kew Palace and the White House. Excavations at Kew Gardens in 2009 revealed a wall that may have belonged to the property.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/issue.xhtml?recordId=1109648&recordType=GreyLitSeries | title=Replacement Outdoor Children's Play Area, land adjacent to the Climbers and Creepers Building, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew... Archaeological Watching Brief and in situ Preservation of Remains | website= Archaeological Data Service | date=2010 | access-date=31 May 2023 | author= Potter, G|pages=i and 4}}</ref>

In Elizabeth's reign, and under the Stuarts, houses were developed along Kew Green.<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.16</ref> [[West Hall, Kew|West Hall]], which survives in West Hall Road, dates from at least the 14th century and the present house was built at the end of the 17th century.<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.18</ref>

[[Elizabeth Stuart (1596–1662)|Elizabeth Stuart]]  (1596–1662), daughter of [[James VI and I|James I]], later known as the  "Winter Queen", was given a household at Kew in 1608.<ref name="Parishes"/>

[[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Queen Anne]] subscribed to the building of the [[St Anne's Church, Kew|parish church on Kew Green]], which was dedicated to [[Saint Anne|St Anne]] in 1714, three months before the queen's death.<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.23</ref>

====The Hanoverians====
The [[Hanoverians]] maintained the strongest links with Kew, in particular [[Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha|Princess Augusta]] who founded the botanic gardens<ref name="Heritage Year 2006">{{cite press release | url=http://www.kew.org/press/heritage_year.html | title=Reading the Royal Landscape: Heritage Year 2006 | publisher=[[Royal Botanic Gardens Kew]] | date=2006 | access-date=4 February 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205020133/http://www.kew.org/press/heritage_year.html | archive-date=5 February 2016 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> and her husband [[Frederick, Prince of Wales]] (1707–1751) who lived at the White House in Kew. Augusta, as [[Dowager]] Princess of Wales, continued to live there until her death in 1772.<ref name="Royal">{{cite web | url=https://www.richmond.gov.uk/royal_richmond_timeline  | title=Royal Richmond timeline: 900 years of royal associations with Richmond upon Thames | publisher=[[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames]] | work=Local history timelines | date= 1 April 2020|access-date=31 May 2023}}</ref> Frederick commissioned the building of the first substantial [[greenhouse]] at Kew Gardens.<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.32</ref>

In 1772 [[King George III]] and [[Queen Charlotte]] moved into the White House at Kew.<ref name="Royal"/> Charlotte died at the [[Kew Palace|Dutch House]] (now Kew Palace) in 1818.<ref name="Royal"/>

[[King William IV]] spent most of his early life at Richmond and at Kew Palace, where he was educated by private tutors.<ref>{{cite book|author= Zeigler, Philip |pages= 13–19|year=1971| title= King William IV|location= London|publisher=[[William Collins, Sons|Collins]]| isbn = 978-0-00-211934-4|author-link= Philip Ziegler}}</ref>