Tudor Beauties at Hampton Court

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Hampton Court Palace is an hour on the train from London and on the day we visited there were events on for kids (make a hat, dress up etc) and period actors strolling around so history was brought to life for everyone.

The Palace was a present to King Henry'VIII

The outfits the girls tried on would have been the type of dress worn by monarchs or very wealthy ladies from the Tudor period: Jane Grey, Mary and Elizabeth. The place is said to be haunted by a number of ghosts.
http://www.castleofspirits.com/hamptoncourt.html

There is a pretty cool maze, very interesting kitchens (with huge open fire place and cauldron looking pots and lovely formal gardens. You can ice skate here in Winter.

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Photos

Tudor hunting dogs
These dogs hunt by sight. There are 5 dogs on each hunt: two whose skill is seeing, two who are good with a scent (one for picking up the animal scent and one that can smell blood) and one that could run very fast.
Nice

Comments

[skinule]

tudor
I hope that's not real fur!!

[Francy]

Of course it is...hunting hounds don't usually walk around in fake fur. :-)

[grandma]

sneakers
Di d the Queen really wear sneakers? You all had a past life as Tudor ladies-beautiful!!! Benji also was a wolfhound in his past life.