The Queens' Room Arrangement
Queens' Room Info.
- The Queen’s Bedroom is on the second floor of the White House, part of a guest suite of rooms that includes the Queen's Sitting Room. The room was "named for the many royal guests it has hosted, including queens of the Netherlands, Greece, Norway, Nepal, and the Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms.
Queens' Room History
- Before the construction of the West Wing in 1902, it was the usual bedroom and office for presidential private secretaries. Many male relatives, including sons of presidents, used the room as their bedroom. The room became a regular bedroom suite when the president's staff moved into the West Wing. When the White House was gutted and rebuilt during the Truman administration, this room was rebuilt as a guest suite with its own bathroom.
- Winston Churchill stayed in the room when he visited Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman before and after World War II. Mamie Eisenhower once had her son, John, and his wife, Barbara, moved to another room because she felt that only queens and similar state guests should stay in this room. Jacqueline Kennedy considered taking the room for herself in 1961, but settled instead on the traditional master suite.
- Between 1902 and 1963, the room was known as the Rose Room. Anna Roosevelt , daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, moved into the room in 1944 and served as the President's assistant and White House hostess during her mother's frequent absences. President and Mrs. Kennedy used the Queen’s Bedroom while the master suite was being decorated in their first weeks in the house
- The bedroom suite now called the Queens' Suite, because several European queens stayed here, was called the Rose Suite after the 1902 renovation, and was often used by visiting relatives: Edith Roosevelt's sister Emily Carow; William Howard Taft's sister and brother-in-law, Frances and William Edwards; Coolidge's cousin's daughter Marion Pollard; Anna Roosevelt, FDR's daughter; and most "First Mothers," from Martha Truman to Virginia Clinton Kelley.
Queens' Bedroom ( in 2000 )
The Queens' Bedroom ( in 1962 )
The Queens' Room ( in 1991 )
The Queens' Room ( in 1962 )
The Queens' Room ( in 1965 )
The Queens' Room Flower Arrangements
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