During this time when she was bedridden, her father helped to set up a specially made easel to hang over her bed, so that she could spend her days painting.
For Churchill's lying in state in 1965, a replica of the hall was set up in the ballroom of the St Ermin's hotel nearby, so soldiers could practise their movements before they went on duty.
Intensive treatment units filled to capacity make the headlines, but it's just as often the slow, bed-bound recoveries that are placing such immense pressure on the NHS.
They would go up this path and down that one and cross the other and go round among the fountain flower-beds as if they were looking at the " bedding-out plants" the head gardener, Mr. Roach, had been having arranged.