📍Hampton Court Way, East Molesey, Surrey KT8 9AU, United Kingdom
1528 – 1547“Hampton Court was Cardinal Wolsey's house until I made plain that the most magnificent palace in England was more suitable for a king than a churchman. He gave it to me in 1528 and I spent the next decade making it grander still. Six of my wives passed through these galleries. I added the Great Hall in four years — my craftsmen worked by candlelight to complete it. No building better represents what the English crown was in its hour of absolute power.”
👍 LovedThe tennis courts — I was a formidable player in my youth, and here I was unbeatable
👎 DislikedThe memories that accumulated — the ghosts of marriages dissolved, wives executed, promises unmade
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Sources: Wikipedia: Henry VIII