The Prime Minister's Garden Party at Hampton Court, part of
the Government Hospitality Scheme, was held in honour of the Overseas visitors to this country and the chief officials of the British Empire Exhibition. The crowd of visitors was very large, and it was augmented, and very properly so, by a large body of the public, who were not deprived of their usual enjoyment of the Palace Gardens owing to the Party. Only a portion of the Home Park and the interior of the Palace were reserved for the Prime Minister's guests. It is impossible to imagine a more fascinating background for a great public entertain- ment than that afforded by the Palace of Wolsey and William and Mary. The last, and in some ways best, word said in mediaeval domestic architecture and the most glorious piece of the Baroque style to be found in England look askance at each other, and yet are in a kind of discordant harmony. Did Wren ever tell what he really thought of Wolsey's work ?
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