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Our slow procession around formal royal palaces continued today with Hampton Court.
Originally taken over by Thomas Wolsey, who wanted to create a Renaissance cardinal’s palace in the style of the Italian architects, he was forced to hand it over to Henry VIII as he fell out of favour with the King.
It is the site of the last medieval Great Hall built for the English monarchy and also the place in which James I met with the English Puritans, a meeting which led to James’s commissioning of the King James Version of the Bible.
“He gave his honors to the world again, His blessèd part to heaven, and slept in peace.”
Henry VIII Act 4, Scene 2
