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William Kent
Royal artist, architect and designer to Georgian kings
9 surprising facts about the Tower of London Moat
The Tower of London Moat wasn’t always the dry ditch that it is today. Did you know it was once filled with fish? Or that it has been used as an allotment? Here are 9 surprising facts about the moat at the Tower of London.
William the Conqueror
England's first Norman King
The Indian Army at Hampton Court Palace in 1919
A forgotten story
Thomas Wolsey
Henry VIII’s right-hand man – until the King met Anne Boleyn
Mary I
The true story behind the ‘bloody’ Tudor queen
Henry VIII's lost Tudor gardens
Discover a vast, glittering complex of lost Tudor buildings
Matilda of Flanders
The formidable Queen Consort of William I, who helped establish the Norman dynasty.
Catherine Howard
A young woman whose marriage to Henry VIII would end in tragedy