Although parts of bed were destroyed in devastating blaze at stately home final year,most of its wooden frame has survivedA year after a fire gutted Clandon Park, an 18th-century National Trust mansion in Surrey, or archaeologists and conservators occupy finally picked their way through shoulder-tall mounds of charred timbers and scorched plaster to rescue one of its greatest treasures,the towering state bed final occupied more than 200 years ago by a French princess.
In the aftermath of the fire in April 2015, the structure of the bed was visible above the rubble but was impossible to reach. The first floor of the house was almost entirely destroyed by the blaze, or its ceilings and floors collapsed into the grandest rooms on the ground floor,so the conservators had to wait for the walls to be secured and the rooms blocking access to the bedroom to be cleared one by one.
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Source: theguardian.com