State Bedrooms were designed for use by royal guests only. This room was therefore created to dazzle and impress, and furnished with a suite of 'parade' furniture.

The State Bedroom was richly decorated with a scheme of green damask, gilded wood and black lacquer furniture. It also contained the most important (and most expensive) piece of furniture in the entire house – the State Bed.

More money was spent decorating this room (and the adjoining dressing room) than any other room in the House. Despite this, the room was probably only used twice – first by the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia in 1816, and later by the future Queen Victoria in 1835. Probably because it was used so infrequently, the room was converted to the Countess’ Sitting Room in the Victorian period, with the bed being dismantled. 

The room was restored to its original function as a bedroom in 2000. Today the room contains some of the most celebrated pieces of Chippendale furniture in the world.