Hamptom Court
Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the borough of
Richmond upon Thames, London, England, 11.7 miles (18.8 kilometres) south west
and upstream of central London on the River Thames. Building of the palace
began in 1515 for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, a favourite of King Henry VIII. In
1529, as Wolsey fell from favour, the King seized the palace for himself and
later enlarged it. Along with St James's Palace, it is one of only two
surviving palaces out of the many owned by King Henry VIII.
In the following century, King William III's massive
rebuilding and expansion project, which destroyed much of the Tudor palace, was
intended to rival Versailles. Work ceased in 1694, leaving the palace in two
distinct contrasting architectural styles, domestic Tudor and Baroque. While
the palace's styles are an accident of fate, a unity exists due to the use of
pink bricks and a symmetrical, if vague, balancing of successive low wings. King George II was the last monarch to reside
in the palace.
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