BY ROYAL APPOINTMENT, or "Why do they call it Royal Tunbridge Wells?"
by Chris Jones
Monograph No. 10. Published Feb 2009.
ISBN No: 978-0-9560944-1-4
Price: £5.95
“I am so very sorry to leave the dear place. I am so very fond of it.” Princess Victoria, on leaving Tunbridge Wells. Sept 1st, 1835.
Chris Jones explains why Tunbridge Wells is entitled to call itself ‘Royal’, and identifies all the royal visitors to the town over the past four hundred years.
Chris Jones is Secretary of the Local History Group of the Royal Tunbridge Wells Civic Society. He studied History at the University of Warwick, and has worked in the IT industry for over thirty years.
