I really enjoyed my visit to Hampton Court Palace, a magnificent royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. This palace was home to many English kings and queens. I don’t know much at all about the kings and queens of England but I have seen Six so I knew a lot more before going than I usually would and it made me a lot more excited to explore the Abbey and learn about the people who had lived there, including Henry VIII and his wives. All of the songs from Six kept playing on repeat in my head and I got excited when I would find a portrait of one of the six wives with information on her.
There were a lot of really cool rooms and I loved how open and spacious a lot of them were. I’m not sure if I had a favorite room because there were so many that I liked but the chocolate kitchen is definitely up there. They had three rooms dedicated to making chocolate desserts. I found it funny that there was such a large space dedicated solely to chocolate. It wasn’t super big but considering it was only chocolate and nothing else I would have thought chocolates could have been made in the kitchen and that space could have been used for other more important things.
There were a lot of large empty rooms and I liked all of them but there was one in particular that I really liked. What drew me to this room was that it was decorated with weapons but they weren’t just decorative. The guards were able to remove the weapons from the walls and use them if there was a threat to the king. I also really liked the grand staircases and the decorative railings they all had.
One king wanted to completely rebuild Westminster but didn’t have the funds so he only renovated one third of it which is why there are different styles. In addition, some other things point to saving money like painting using a marble pattern instead of using actual marble.
Finally, I loved the courtyard and gardens and actually sat and ate lunch in the privy gardens. I met and made friends with a duck that I named Markis:).
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