Chenies Manor House has had its share of Royal visitors. King Henry VIII brought two of his wives to Chenies - Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. - and Elizabeth I also spent a short time there. When Charles I was captured by the Cromwellians he was taken as prisoner to Chenies for a while and the house was also used to billet 200 Parliamentary soldiers during the time of the Civil War. Chenies is haunted by the sound of a ghost with a limp. The sound of the limping was traced to an area in which the Roundhead soldiers slept.
Certain structural alterations were made to the Pink Room in the 1970’s when it was discovered that there was no place to fit a wardrobe. It was known that there was a small bricked-up room in the one wall of the room and workmen were engaged to |
