In British society, a drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained. The name is derived from withdrawing room. In a large sixteenth, seventeenth or early eighteenth century English house, a withdrawing room was a room to which the owner of the house, his wife, or a distinguished guest who was occupying one of the main apartments in the house could "withdraw" for more privacy. It was often off the great chamber (or the great chamber's descendent the saloon) and usually led to a bedroom. A room is an enclosed space in a house or other building. ... The great chamber was the second most important room in a medieval or Tudor English castle, palace, mansion or manor house after the great hall. ...
The term drawing room is now slightly old fashioned and is not used as widely as it once was.
In a large sixteenth, seventeenth or early eighteenth century English house, a withdrawing room was a room to which the owner of the house, his wife, or a distinguished guest who was occupying one of the main apartments in the house could "withdraw" for more privacy.
The term drawingroom is not used as widely as it once was, and tends to be used in Britain only by those who also have other reception rooms in which to relax, hence the drawingroom is the smartest room in the house usually used by the adults of the family when entertaining.
Drawingroom comedy is also sometimes called the "comedy of manners." Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and several of the plays of Noel Coward are considered typical works of the genre.
The dimensions of the room are 43 ft. long by 20 ft. wide by 12 ft. 6 in.
The drawingroom served as a sick bay.
The room is now a souvenir shop called "Queen Mary's Curios." The painting in front of which Churchill was photographed is on the far wall in the right-hand photo.
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