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The Palace: When royals romped at Hampton Court

The Palace: When royals romped at Hampton Court
Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII and Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn in the acclaimed TV series The Tudors. (Image: Jonathan Hession)
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By Moira HodgsonToday, most of the world associates the home of the British royal family with the imposing facade of London’s Buckingham Palace, or the 11th-century Norman fortress of Windsor Castle in Berkshire, where Elizabeth II spent her last years. But, over two eventful centuries, some of the greatest achievements and worst excesses of British history unfolded at the sprawling royal estate of Hampton Court. A redbrick colossus, with high Tudor chimneys on one side and a baroque facade on the other, the palace overlooks the...

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