{"id":1030,"date":"2009-02-07T19:54:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T01:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2009-02-07T19:54:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T01:54:58","slug":"henry-viiis-stairthrone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/07\/henry-viiis-stairthrone\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry VIII&#8217;s &#8220;Stairthrone&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The Mail Online:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHenry VIII is perhaps best known for his six wives and founding the Church of England.<\/p>\n<p>But a leading academic has revealed that the bloated Tudor monarch has another claim to fame: inventing the stairlift.<\/p>\n<p>David Starkey, well known for his TV documentaries on historical royals, discovered that Henry VIII used a bespoke &#8216;stairthrone&#8217; during research.<\/p>\n<p>Described in royal records as &#8216;a chair&#8230;that goeth up and down&#8217;, the stairlift is thought to have been operational at Whitehall Palace in London where it would have hauled the King up a 20ft staircase.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1138522\/Henry-VIII-used-stairthrone-steps-says-Starkey.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wish I could have seen that in action&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Mail Online: Henry VIII is perhaps best known for his six wives and founding the Church of England. But a leading academic has revealed that the bloated Tudor monarch has another claim to fame: inventing the stairlift. David Starkey, well known for his TV documentaries on historical royals,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/07\/henry-viiis-stairthrone\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tudor-history-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}