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Last weekend on one of my breaks I had the use of the car…..since I’m working tantalisingly near to Hampton Court Palace, I simply had to visit. It really is my absolute favourite palace in London and despite having visited dozens of times in the last 5 years, I never get tired of another.

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how can you fail to be impressed

It gives me a thrill to walk through the halls and along passageways where people like Wolsey, Cromwell, Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, George I to name but a few of history’s famous and notorious characters walked centuries before.

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in the footsteps of history…

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the first thing you see as you enter through the main gate

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Base Court

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the magnificent ceiling above The Queen’s Staircase

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Yeoman Warders uniforms

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fine dining with the Georgians

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exquisite fashions of the Georgians

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the ceiling of Queen Caroline’s State Bedchamber

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Fountain Court; the Tudor Palace peeks above the Georgian Palace built by Christopher Wren

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The Moat. I remember a couple of years ago when we had those terrible floods, the moat was full of water. It looked quite amazing actually.

Hampton Court Palace is a treasure house.

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