Royal Pavilion

George IV died in 1830 and he was succeeded by his brother, William IV, who continued to use the Pavilion on his visits to Brighton. But, his niece, Queen Victoria, was not so enamoured with Brighton nor the Pavilion, particularly after the seaside resort became accessible to the masses from London by rail. She began building Osborne House on the Isle of Wight from 1846 and in 1850 she sold the Pavilion to the town of Brighton for £53,000 for use as their assembly rooms. As part of the condition of the sale, much of the original furniture, fixtures and fittings were removed to either Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle. But from the 1860s, the Royal Family returned and permanently loaned large quantities of what had been removed and coupled with an extensive restoration project, the Pavilion is now an accurate representation of how it appeared in the 1820s.