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Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed [2] royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, 12 miles (19 kilometres) southwest and upstream of central London on the River Thames. Opened to the public, the palace is managed by Historic Royal Palaces , a charity set up to preserve several unoccupied royal properties.
One of the wooden King's Beasts created in 2009 for the Chapel Court at Hampton Court Palace. In 2009, to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the accession to the throne of King Henry VIII, a new Tudor garden was created by Hampton Court in the form of the Chapel Court. To decorate the garden eight small wooden King's Beasts were carved in oak ...
Historic Royal Palaces advertises Hampton Court Palace as the "home of Henry VIII", focussing on the dramas and lives of Henry VIII, his wives and their children in the world of the Tudor court. The baroque palace built for William III and Mary II, 60 acres of gardens and Magic Garden adventure playground are key attractions. [6]
Ernest Law, the historian of Hampton Court Palace, lived at the Pavilion until his death. [4] The pavilion was occupied by Cecil Harmsworth King and his second wife Ruth Railton in the 1960s and 1970s. [5] [6] In 2019 a replica was built next to the original by R W Armstrong & Sons Ltd. [7] The Pavilion
Hampton Court, from the park. Hampton Court Park, also known as Home Park, is a walled royal park managed by the Historic Royal Palaces. [1] The park lies between the gardens of Hampton Court Palace and Kingston upon Thames and Surbiton in south west London, England, mostly within the post town of East Molesey, but with its eastern extremity within the post town of Kingston.
Triumphs of Caesar (Mantegna), 1484–92, displayed in their own section of the palace. Anonymous – Field of Cloth of Gold c. 1545. Jacopo Bassano – The Adoration of the Shepherds c. 1544–45. Sir Godfrey Kneller – William III on Horseback, 1701; Hampton Court Beauties, 1690s. Sir Peter Lely – Windsor Beauties, 1660s.
Hampton Court Palace: Richmond-upon-Thames: The Crown, since Henry VIII (1525), now managed by Historic Royal Palace agency Hanworth Manor: Borough of Hounslow Henry VII; Henry VIII; Elizabeth I; also Anne Boleyn and Katherine Parr: Kennington Palace: Kennington: Built by Edward the Black Prince around 1350.
Significant numbers of day-trippers would travel by river, tram and rail to visit Hampton Court Palace after it was opened to the public (with free admission) in 1838 (see Hampton Court Palace). Tagg's Island became the site of multiple resort hotel developments, culminating with the grand Karsino Hotel in 1913. [101] As Henry Ripley wrote in ...