11K views · 363 reactions | Come and see my bus and I at Penshurst place on the 3rd 4th and 5th of May for the Weald of Kent county craft fair! #peteandhisbus #rml2355 #barml2355 #penshurstplace #craftfair | Pete And His Bus | Facebook

Penshurst Place in Kent In 1552, Penshurst was granted to Sir William Sydney by Edward VI. It had passed into Crown hands when a previous owner, Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, was executed in Henry VIII’s reign, for treason. . William Sydney’s son, Henry married Robert Dudley’s sister, Mary. Mary, a lady in waiting to Elizabeth I and sister of his favourite, tended the Queen during her near death experience with smallpox. Mary caught the disease too, survived but was badly scarred and reti