{"id":5806,"date":"2017-05-01T17:26:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T21:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=5806"},"modified":"2017-05-12T16:41:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T20:41:46","slug":"may-1-london-hampton-court-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=5806","title":{"rendered":"May 1 – London – Hampton Court Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 1 was a Bank Holiday in England & we spent the day at Hampton Court Palace.<\/p>\n

51.4036\u00b0 N, 0.3378\u00b0 W<\/p>\n

This is the palace where Henry VIII spent a significant portion of his reign with Anne Boleyn & Jane Seymour.<\/p>\n

The palace is quite a distance from the city center & it took us about an hour on the subway & connecting train to get there – but it was well worth the effort.<\/p>\n

Today the palace offers a unique experience to visitors through a group of actors who portray the King, Ann Boleyn, Cromwell & Jane Seymour and several others in a series of scenes in the very rooms in the palace where the actual people could have had the same interactions & conversations.
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It really enhanced our experience & our appreciation of the significant history of this palace & the people who lived there.<\/p>\n

Following the vignettes we toured many rooms in the palace.<\/p>\n

There were several throne rooms on display<\/p>\n

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Some were used more often than others……<\/p>\n

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Talk about having a soft seat……<\/p>\n

Next we took a guided tour of the palace gardens.<\/p>\n

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The tour focused more on the history of the gardens rather than on the plantings. Our guide was excellent & the gardens were spectacular.<\/p>\n

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Our guide told us that the gardening staff are focused on maintaining the gardens with the same types of plants that were used when the monarchs were in residence.<\/p>\n

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We even got a “behind the scenes” tour of some of the greenhouses where plants for the gardens are grown from seed.<\/p>\n

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Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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