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Palaces

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Queen Charlotte

Wife of George III and mother to 15 children

Queen Victoria

From pampered princess to elderly empress: wife, mother and queen

Henry VIII’s kitchens at Hampton Court

Henry VIII's food factory, preparing up to 1,000 meals a day

The Rubens ceiling

The crowning glory of the Banqueting House

George III

Dutiful, intelligent and cultured, but cruelly labelled ‘mad’

William III and Mary II

England's only joint sovereigns, who transformed Kensington Palace into a royal residence

The gardens at Hampton Court Palace

A brief history of the famous royal gardens

James I and Anne of Denmark

Generous, scholarly James and his cultured wife

The execution of Charles I

Tried and sentenced to death for high treason