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What does it take to make a house?
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One of history's greatest homes,
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whether they're warm and cozy or grand and drafted.
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When you're building your home,
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you're creating your own universe,
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and the most celebrated homes in history
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stood the test of time.
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This is Hampton Court Palace,
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it was a place for fun,
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and above all, as you can see of magnificence,
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this is a spectacular palace even today.
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We often describe it as an architectural autobiography,
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and so at (indistinct), you get a true sense of a man.
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I think that the point was to be ostentatious,
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this was the statement that they were trying to make,
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that they had made it,
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and they were going to let the world know
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that they were important.
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{\an8}(speaking in foreign language)
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You can imagine coming into this room
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in the evening, or any time of day,
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and everybody who was anybody who's here.
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(crow cawing)
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The homes of royalty are often grand,
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luxurious and imposing,
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but only the greatest have history,
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and when that history is steeped in power,
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pleasure, blood and scandal,
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you have a home for the ages.
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On the outskirts of greater London,
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standing by the banks of the River Thames,
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one such home was owned by one of Britain's most important
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and infamous monarchs,
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Henry the VIII, Hampton Court Palace.
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{\an8}This used to be the home of Henry the VIII,
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{\an8}at least one of his many homes,
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{\an8}and this was a place where he came to enjoy himself,
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this is his palace of pleasure.
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Historian, Susanna Lipscomb
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is a former curator of Hampton Court Palace.
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It's like coming home (chuckles),
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not that my home is like this,
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but it's a place I spent a lot of time,
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and it is always astoundingly beautiful,
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it's always so magnificent.
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I don't know if you can listen to the sound
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of this gatehouse, it's wonderful,
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and then we get through,
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and
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this amazing base court, this first courtyard is revealed
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and it's just spectacular.
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It's a home befitting,
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a larger than life figure,
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a man who died almost five centuries ago,
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but whose life still fascinates today.
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We have this image of Henry the VIII,
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later in his life was, hands on hips,
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a massive obese man by the end of his life.
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Six wives, breaking with the Roman Catholic Church,
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but actually he is a more complex character than that,
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when he started his reign, he was just about to turn 18,
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he was considered to be very good looking at the time,
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he was 6.2 feet,
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when the average height of a man was 5.7 feet,
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he was athletic,
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and he was incredibly fashionable.
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So this is a man of many accomplishments,
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and it's fitting that he wanted to be at home
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in a place that was the height of renaissance achievement.
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It was a place for fun,
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and above all, as you can see, of magnificence,
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this is a spectacular palace even today.
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King Henry the VIII,
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was a man of great appetites,
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for pleasure and power, love and legacy.
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All these desires were satisfied in his most beloved home.
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Henry the VIII had many houses,
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by the end of his life, he had 50 or 60,
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but this is one of his favorite,
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and it was a place that was used to project power,
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to impress those who visited.
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From the intricate brickwork,
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to the 241 chimneys,
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to the kings beasts lining visitors entrance
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to the gate house,
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Hampton Court is a vision of Tudor splendor.
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This palace is an example
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of the finest Tudor architecture,
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brick work was modern and exciting
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in the early 16th century,
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and it has this beautiful brick work,
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the diaconal work,
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the patterns the diamonds made out in the brick work.
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The crenelations that were designed to look medieval
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like a castle,
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this is made to look impressive and magnificent.
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Hampton Court is architecturally unique.
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There's a moat,
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but in actual fact it would never have been a place
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that was used as a fortress,
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it was just used for pleasure.
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One of the things you probably immediately noticed
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is the chimneys, the place is covered with them,
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and the thing about Hampton Court,
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is that it was a place of luxury for people to stay,
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because they could come and stay in rooms,
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each of which had their own fireplace,
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this might not sound like a big thing,
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but if you've ever experienced the cold
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of an English winter,
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and it was much colder in the 16th century,
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then you'll know that you want to have your own fireplace.
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The point is that this whole thing is supposed to impress,
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so that if Henry the VIII arrives here
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and he has ambassadors visiting him,
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they see this and think,
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yes, this is a king to be reckoned with.
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This was not mere grandstanding,
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even those who knew the king well,
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struggled to reckon with him.
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Henry was married to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon
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for 15 years,
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and she bore him three and three daughters,
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but only his daughter Mary survived,
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and that would not do.
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Obsessed with producing a male heir,
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to a degree extreme even among royalty,
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this goal would change the course of history,
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and it all happened here.
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As regal, as it appears today,
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Hampton Court started as a modest Manor house
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in the 12th century.
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In the 16th century,
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it became the elaborate home of Lord chancellor,
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and chief advisor to the king, Cardinal Wolsey.
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When the king took up an affair with Anne Boleyn,
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he demanded Wolsey secure an annulment
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of his marriage to Catherine from the Catholic church.
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This scandalous and unprecedented request
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set off a series of events,
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that resulted in Henry breaking from the church,
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and Hampton Court, gaining a new owner.
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It didn't become Henry the VIII himself until 1529,
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which is when Wolsey fell from grace,
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he had failed to achieve the annulment,
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what we know as a divorce,
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of Henry the VIII marriage to Catherine of Aragon,
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and as a result, he was accused of treason,
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and so he was stripped of all his assets,
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including his houses,
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which then moved into the king's possession,
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so it became Henry's Hampton Court.
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The Playboy king had some ambitious plans
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for his newly acquired pleasure palace,
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and they didn't come cheap.
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Henry the VIII then spent a lot of money,
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60,000 pounds at the time,
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which is something around 20 million pounds today,
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building extra kitchens, building a new great hall,
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adding a new chapel,
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chamber upon chamber
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to make this into a palace fit for a king.
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But the price tag would have been worth it,
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for a boisterous and ambitious king.
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This would have been a place of activities,
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so it's all quiet now,
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but you're gonna have to use your imagination.
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(ambient music)
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This as a home had two kind of roles,
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one is that role of being magnificent and impressive,
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and the other is being a place to have fun,
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so there was a bowling alley here, tennis courts,
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he could hunt on land from here to Windsor.
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So it's a home that is used for his comfort
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and for entertainment.
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After a day of play,
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the king could continue the entertainment
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in the castle courtyard.
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So here we have a fountain,
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and it's not just an ordinary fountain,
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because not only does it run with water,
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but it runs with wine,
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which is why it says on it,
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make good cheer who wishes,
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and at the top, you've got Backers or Dionysus,
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who sat on a barrel of wine
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and showing the unique after effects of drinking too much.
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So this is a replica of a Tudor fountain.
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But Hampton Court
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was more than just a place of fun and frivolity,
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this Tudor palace,
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dominated political life in the 1500's.
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At the center of it all,
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was Henry's greatest architectural gift to the world.
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Well, this spectacular room
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is the great hall at Hampton Court,
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and it is the largest and greatest tour
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that Henry the VIII ever built.
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One of the last royal halls built in England,
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this room recalls a bygone era of power and majesty.
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It is intended to impress as it still does.
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Would have been the biggest room
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that most people had been in at the time that it was built,
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so they would have been wowed by that,
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and they would have been wowed by the architecture,
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by the decoration, by the design, by the color.
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This would have been a place that made them stop and think
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that Henry the VIII was the man with all the money.
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Not only was it large,
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in it's time, every element of this room would have dazzled.
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I mean looking up,
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we've got this incredible hammer beam ceiling,
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which would have been painted gold and red and blue
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at the time,
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and is still decorated where these fine call balls
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and eavesdroppers.
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Underneath there that we've got these tapestries
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the Abraham tapestries,
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these are commissioned by Henry the VIII,
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they're made in 1543,
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from the workshop of a man called William de to company
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in Brussels,
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and they are incredibly expensive,
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so there are 10 of them,
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and the total cost is the same as a great warship.
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Now we see tapestries
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and we think of them they're faded and dull,
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but they would have been absolutely neon.
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And they were made with cloth of gold,
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which is a thread of gold through which silk is threaded,
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and so they would have glinted in the candle light.
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So you have to imagine this place
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filled with beautifully dressed, courtyards,
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candle lit, bright tapestries, the bright ceiling,
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and then green and white tiles on the floor.
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So it would have been this total, sort of color
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when you walked in.
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The riches and splendor festooning every wall,
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would have made quite an impression.
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Through each and every design detail,
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Henry was shaping his legend.
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The Abraham tapestries also do something dynastic
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because they tell the story of Abraham
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from Genesis 12 to 24,
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and how he had a son late in life,
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and how he was chosen by God to lead his people,
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and this is exactly how Henry the VIII sees himself,
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that he has been given a son later in life,
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and that he has this divine purpose,
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and so these tapestries speak to that sense of who he is.
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There are other relics here too,
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of the king's tumultuous personal story.
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Anne Boleyn had given him a daughter Elizabeth,
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but when she miscarried Henry son,
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her reign came to an abrupt end.
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Throughout the palace,
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there are markers of Henry, the ex wives,
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and the one in here
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speaks to who was queen,
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when it was built, which is Anne Boleyn.
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Most of the markers of Ann Boleyn were knocked out,
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when she ceased to be queen when she was beheaded,
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but we've still got one hidden here in the screen,
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and H and A intertwined in a lover's knot.
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When she was executed,
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they had to get rid of all the symbols off,
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and then putting those of Jane Seymour,
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with the wife who finally did
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what he wanted all the others to do,
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in that she had a son,
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and perhaps it's symbolic that her heart is buried here
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in the chapel,
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because she died here
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having given birth to that very son.
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Henry's elation at finally having a male heir
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was swiftly followed by the devastation
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of his third wife's passing.
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(indistinct chatter)
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As king, the tragedies and triumphs of Henry's life
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were always on public display.
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Henry's power hinged on projecting an image of strength
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into wealth,
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and what better way to do so
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than to throw some Epic parties.
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(dramatic orchestral music)
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So halls we're above all about impressing
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as places to entertain, to host foreign guests,
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when the French ambassadors were visiting,
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there would have been revelers and spectacles going on here,
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and these things were extraordinary.
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This is total a theater,
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and then there's dancing, Henry the VIII loved dancing,
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or masks where they put on masks and danced.
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This would have been used for feasts,
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so, heir marking christenings or marriages,
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Henry the VIII got married here at Hampton Court,
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and to Katherine Parr.
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And the food was as fantastical
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as the festivities.
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If you were wealthy at the time,
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you would eat meat in large quantities.
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So for example, one of the dishes that they would serve
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at a Tudor banquet was called (indistinct),
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which was made of the front end of a Capon, so a chicken,
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and the back-end of a pig.
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So this is imaginary creature,
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or you might have birds within birds
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that were stuffed into each other.
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And then my favorite bit of the Tudor banquets,
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is the sugar subtleties.
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A subtlety is a shape made out of sugar,
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sugar was very, very expensive in the Tudor period,
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and therefore quite rare,
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and so if you had, subtlety made of sugar and you ate it,
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it was like taking a drug, they were completely high,
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and my favorite thing,
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is that they would occasionally have a goblet made of sugar,
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which you could drink wine from,
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and then you could eat the goblet,
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just imagine the effect both drunk and sugar high (laughs).
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This historic hall,
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was all public pageantry, parties and politics,
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and the kings only refuge
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would have been his private chambers.
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Henry the VIII private apartments are no longer standing,
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but behind that door is now a wall,
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and they're palaces there,
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but there would have been a succession of
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private apartments,
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so more intimate, smaller spaces
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where the king preferred to spend his time.
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They weren't exactly private by our standards,
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because Henry was always surrounded by people,
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he always had people on hand to serve him,
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and infamously, one of the most privileged positions
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at the court,
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was the groom of the store,
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groom of the store being the person who attended the king
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whilst he was using the toilet,
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and this was a privileged position,
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a member of nobility had this position
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because you were someone who had access to the king
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in his most intimate moments,
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and therefore had potential to get favors,
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and to have promises made to you
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when the king was kind of vulnerable,
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so he was never absolutely private.
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Wherever he resided,
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the king was surrounded by the royal court,
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these were high ranking members of the aristocracy
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vying for patronage or influence.
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Their best chance to speak with the king was here,
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in the watching chamber.
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This is the great watching chamber,
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so it's so called
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because it was a room in which people waited
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and watched for Henry the VIII to emerge
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from these doors here.
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So this is a place people spent a lot of time,
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and in fact, we have all sorts of instructions
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where they say,
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please don't play games here, please don't gamble,
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many of the men were told,
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please don't pee against the walls,
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which it tells us
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that people were doing precisely those things in this room.
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You had to be of the rank of baron
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or above to be in this room,
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and often there would have been pages waiting here,
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and the point is, as Henry comes
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from his private apartments to the chapel,
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you have a moment to capture his attention.
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You might petition him and say,
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"please, could you have a look at this thing,
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"please could you give a job to my aunt
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"or my uncle or my nephew or whatever."
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And so that's why this is such an important room.
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The great hall
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was the center of cultural life in court,
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and the watching chamber a hub of political machinations.
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But it was the room downstairs,
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that was the lifeblood of the palace.
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The kitchens at Hampton Court
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were the largest in Tudor, England.
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This is the great kitchens at Hampton Court,
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and this is the other side of life at court.
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Even when there wasn't dancing and banqueting
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happening in the great hall,
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1200 meals were being served a day
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to the hungry courtiers of the king.
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200 cooks, sergeants, grooms and pages,
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worked day in and day out to feed the beast.
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600 people a day had meals at 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.,
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and someone had to make them.
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This is where the magic happened,
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and we're talking about huge amounts of meat,
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above all that was being roasted on spits
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or being boiled in (indistinct),
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so whether we're talking beef or veal or mutton
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or deer or venison or chickens, capons,
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somebody was sitting there turning it.
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It's about production on a vast scale,
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so you have to imagine it was quiet now,
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just a few of us in here,
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but if you imagine that there were 200 people.
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All under the control of the master cook,
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who was the kind of chef,
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Henry the VIII had a chef called Pero Doux
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or Peter the Sweet.
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So, you've got activity and noise and people boiling meat
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and people cutting up vegetables
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and just activity all the time
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to prepare for those two great meals a day.
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The diet of Henry and his household
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was not the healthiest by today's standards.
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This was a diet that for the wealthy was pretty unhealthy,
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it was very, very heavy in meat,
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so I'm talking four or 5,000 calories a day
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in terms of food, and the range of meat,
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so, add to the fact that they had white bread, manchette,
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which had all the whole meal removed,
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and that they didn't drink water,
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it was considered to be bad for you.
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So everybody was slightly drunk all the time,
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because they were drinking beer all the time,
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and Henry the VIII also had a lot of wine.
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So it turns out that if you just have loads of meat
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and loads of bread, you don't turn out to be that healthy,
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So he actually had real problems with gout, and obesity,
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he went from having a waist measurement of 37 inches,
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to that being 54 inches later in life,
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and we know that he was troubled by ulcers in his leg
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he had to be moved around his palaces
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in the (indistinct) equivalent
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of a wheelchair later in life,
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so dropsy and gout,
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and all of these things that are caught
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basically by eating badly.
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By the end of his reign,
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the one strapping king was worse for wear.
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Though Hampton Court was his most beloved home,
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it also housed some terrible memories for the king.
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The destruction of Anne Boleyn, the death of his wife Jane,
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and later the arrest of his fifth wife Catherine Howard,
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who was later executed at the Tower of London
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for adultery and treason.
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The ghosts of Henry's past were laid bare here
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in the halls of Hampton Court.
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In 1547 at the age of 55, Henry the VIII died.
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Henry the VIII, three children,
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Edward the VI, Mary the I and Elizabeth the I in turn,
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all made use of their father's palace
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until they to passed it on in the Royal tradition.
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In 1603, William Shakespeare's acting troupe
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first performed Hamlet and Macbeth,
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for the new steward king James the I.
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James's son, Charles the I,
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used the palace as a storage facility
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for his fabulous art collection,
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but was imprisoned at Hampton Court
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when civil war broke out.
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It wasn't until 1689,
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that new life was breathed into the palace.
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In the late 17th century,
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the king and Queen William were married
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decided they wanted to live here,
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they thought that this Tudor palace is a bit old fashioned.
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When William the III and Mary the II
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took the throne,
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they decided to do a little addition
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and build an elegant new Baroque style palace.
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William and Mary wanted to build the foresight of England.
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From the lavish interiors to the incredible gardens,
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Hampton Court was again the epitome of luxury and grandeur
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for the kingdom.
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Finally in 1838,
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Queen Victoria opens the palace to the public.
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Ever since Hampton was renamed
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a magnet for millions of visitors drawn to its grandeur
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and his dramatic legacy.
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And through this incredible palace,
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once the playground of a playboy king, history lives on.
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(dramatic music)
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