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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.
The Royal Tennis Court, Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed [1] court for playing the sport of real tennis. It was built for Cardinal Wolsey between 1526 and 1529. Henry VIII of England played there from 1528. This court is still home to an active tennis club. In 2015 it was closed to visitors for major restoration works.
Hampton Court Palace – a royal residence from 1529 until 1760. Home to certain Grace and favour residents until the last died in 2017. Now managed by Historic Royal Palaces .
Hampton Court Palace. Hampton Court Place is a historic palace located on the north bank of the River Thames near Hampton in Greater London, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Cardinal Wolsey began construction in 1514 of a royal palace, which was continued and expanded by Henry VIII after Wolsey's demise in 1530.
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 ...
St James's Palace had 20 apartments. Lord Kitchener once lived there, as did the Duke of Windsor. Most apartments are modest, some two rooms, inhabited mostly by retired members of the household staff. Hampton Court Palace apartments were generally occupied by retired soldiers and diplomats or (more usually) by their widows. Grace and favour ...
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
The ground where the station and Park is sited was previously owned by the Church, then Hampton Court Palace, and then gifted to the local council between 1670 and 1840. The station is the terminus of the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) Hampton Court branch line that has one junction – with the South West Main Line (west of Surbiton ).