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On 5th October 2011 Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal attended a dinner in the Chapter Hall of St John’s Gate, to celebrate the success of the redeveloped Museum. The dinner was attended by 100 supporters and friends, and helped towards raising the final sum necessary to bridge the funding gap.
On Tuesday 2nd November 2011 the Museum of the Order of St John was declared open by His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester, Grand Prior of the Order.
His Royal Highness spoke of the pleasure it had given him to have seen the transformation of the Museum and of the importance of the story it tells, of the Knights Hospitaller from their foundation in 11th century Jerusalem to the charitable operations of the modern Order, best known for running St John Ambulance and the famous Eye Hospital in Jerusalem.
Founded at the beginning of the twelfth century in Jerusalem, the Order of St John was a religious order with a particular duty to care for the sick, regardless of creed or country. The Crusaders, who set up their own independent states in the Holy Land, supported it with grants of money and territory. Members of the Order, also known as Knights Hospitaller or Knights of Malta, came from all over Europe and developed a military role to defend these states. In the 1140s, the Hospitallers were given a ten acre site in London’s Clerkenwell district, which became their English headquarters.
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