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Hampton Court Palace : the official illustrated history / Lucy Worsley, David Souden.
Van Pelt Library DA690.H2 W67 2005
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Worsley, Lucy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England)--History.
- Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England).
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Merrell, 2005.
- Contents:
- Life at Court 9
- Royal houses
- A place at court
- Royal apartments Bedchamber politics
- Courtiers' lodgings
- Before the Palace 17
- Origins
- Lord Daubeney's Hampton Court
- Royal visitors
- The Tudor Palace
- Cardinal Wolsey's Hampton Court 1514-29 21
- Cardinal Wolsey
- Wolsey's first phase of work, 1514-22
- Wolsey's second phase of work, 1522-28
- Wolsey's tapestries
- Wolsey's fall
- Henry VIII's Hampton Court Palace 1529-47 29
- Henry VIII (1509-1547) takes Hampton Court
- Henry VIII begins to build
- Kitchens and sanitation
- Rooms for the King
- The Great Hall
- The palace of pleasure
- Lodgings for Henry's queens
- The Chapel Royal
- Time and tide
- The Later Tudors at Hampton Court Palace 1547-1603 43
- Edward VI (1547-1553)
- Mary I (1553-1558)
- Elizabeth I (1558-1603)
- Improvements to the palace
- Sickness and pleasure
- Seventeenth-Century Hampton Court Palace 1603-89 49
- James I (1603-1625)
- Charles I (1625-1649)
- The Civil War and Commonwealth (1649-1660)
- Charles II (1660-1685)
- The libertine King and his court
- Building and garden improvements
- James II (1685-1688)
- The Baroque Palace
- William and Mary's Hampton Court Palace 1689-1702 61
- William III (1689-1702) and Mary II (1689-1694) become King and Queen of England
- Plans for rebuilding Hampton Court
- Building work begins, 1689-94
- The completion of the King's State Apartments
- Grand opening
- The transformation of the gardens
- The King's death
- Two Queens and Two Georges 1702-60 81
- Queen Anne (1702-1714)
- George I and the Hanoverian dynasty (1714-1727)
- Father and son
- George I stamps his mark
- George II and Queen Caroline (1727-1760)
- Court life
- The palace gardens
- A family affair
- The end of royal occupation
- The 'Grace-and-Favour' Palace after 1760 95
- George III's preferences
- Garden changes
- Palace residents
- 'Grace and Favour'
- Rediscovering the Antique
- Edward Jesse's influence
- The Palace in the Modern Age
- The Visitor's Hampton Court from 1838 107
- Visitors and tourists
- Writers and guides
- Transport and amenities
- Interior displays
- Ghosts
- Restoration
- Gardens
- Conservation in the Twentieth Century and beyond 115
- New directions
- Ernest Law
- Opening new areas
- The glory of the gardens
- Wartime
- From living palace to ancient monument
- Shifting emphasis
- Fire and its aftermath
- Re-presentation schemes
- The Privy Garden
- Gardens and garden features
- Historic Royal Palaces
- A touchstone of English history.
- ISBN:
- 1858942829
- OCLC:
- 57639258
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