Hampton Court Palace
Tudor royal palace of red-brick courtyards, a great hall and a famous hedge maze.
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This guide to Hampton Court Palace centers on the Haunted Gallery and the teenage queen said to have screamed through it: Catherine Howard, Henry the Eighth's fifth wife, confined to her rooms here in the autumn of 1541 as word of infidelity reached the king. You'll hear the legend of her dash toward the chapel to beg for mercy, and what historians make of a story with no firm proof behind it. Stand in the hush of the gallery and listen for yourself.
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