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Hampton Court Palace · Ghost stories and the Unusual Paranormal podcast

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  Speaker 2: other podcasts members to go good, jolly, good Old England.
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  Speaker 2: And today's story is going to be the Hamilton Court Palace,
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  Speaker 2: also the home of Henry the Eighth and the Tudor
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  Speaker 2: dynasty at five hundred year old royal pleasure means this
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  Speaker 2: original tutor Hamilton Court Palace was begun by Cardinal Woolsey
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  Speaker 2: in early sixteenth century, but soon attracted the attention of
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  Speaker 2: one Henry the Eighth, Yes, the Henry the Eighth, the
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  Speaker 2: one that likes to be headed in all of his wives,
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  Speaker 2: who brought all his six wives there and surrounded by
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  Speaker 2: It's surrounded by gorgeous gardens and fabulous features such as
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  Speaker 2: the Maze and the Grapevine. Palace has been setting for
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  Speaker 2: many naturally improved events. When William the Third and Married
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  Speaker 2: the Second sixteen eighty nine to seventeen o two, took
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  Speaker 2: the throne in sixteen eighty nine, they have compressed. They
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  Speaker 2: com commission Sir Christopher Wrenn to build an elegant new
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  Speaker 2: banquet palace. Later, Jordan Georgian kings and princess occupied the
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  Speaker 2: splendid interiors. When the royals left in seventeen thirty seven
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  Speaker 2: and proved an improper, impublished race and flavor, aristocrats moved in.
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  Speaker 2: Queen Victoria opened the palace to the public in eighteen
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  Speaker 2: thirty eight and has remained the magnet for millions of
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  Speaker 2: visitors drawn to the grandeur, the ghosts, and the fabulous
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  Speaker 2: art college. Cardinal Thomas Woolsey, Henry the Eighth's Lord Chancellor,
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  Speaker 2: started a Hamilton Court Palace's transformation from ordinary court house
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  Speaker 2: or ordinary country house to a magnificent palace. Wolsey wanted
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  Speaker 2: to create a grand building where he could boast not
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  Speaker 2: only a king and royal courts, but also monarchs, from
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  Speaker 2: all across Europe. Im this a huge sum of the money,
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  Speaker 2: he created a palace fit for a key. Woolsey was
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  Speaker 2: so successful in his word that Henry eventually took Hamilton
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  Speaker 2: Court for himself. By fifteen thirties it was the home
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  Speaker 2: of Henry the eighths. This Hamilton Court was a palace,
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  Speaker 2: a hotel, a theater, and best leisure complaints. The king
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  Speaker 2: used it to demonstrate and magnificence and power in every
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  Speaker 2: possible way through lavish banquet's, extravagant court life and fabulously
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  Speaker 2: expensive arm In addition to Henry's stay and private apartments
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  Speaker 2: where he slept, ate and relaxed the Queen's private apartments,
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  Speaker 2: the palace contained accommodation for quarters. The style intended to
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  Speaker 2: dependent on the status of the occupant, but again were
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  Speaker 2: attended to impress around aaceport. First big courtyard of the
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  Speaker 2: Tudor Palace, inside the west front, there was thirty suites
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  Speaker 2: of logging lodgings used for the great the grandest visitors.
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  Speaker 2: The palace also held unhappy memories for Henry. The third
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  Speaker 2: queen or wife was Jay Seymour died, giving king a
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  Speaker 2: long fourth son, Edward, later Edward the sixth It's that
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  Speaker 2: her goes. A white wraith appears on the average year
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  Speaker 2: of her death. Henry's fifth wife, Catherine Howard, was rested
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  Speaker 2: here and later executed at the Tower of London for
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  Speaker 2: all for adultery at treason up to eight hundred quarters
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  Speaker 2: good accompany eight hundred company. Henry the eighth all needed
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  Speaker 2: to be fed. The court enlarged and added the existing
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  Speaker 2: grand kitchen built built in the late fourteen hundreds by
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  Speaker 2: a former resident or Dubini. The kitchens became an efficient
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  Speaker 2: food factory servant sixteen hundred meals per day. That's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of meals. Sixteenth centuries saw manyatic dramatic events, some
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  Speaker 2: of them taking place on Hamilton's Court's main hall. In
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  Speaker 2: sixteen o three, William Shakespeare's Kingsman first appeared first before
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  Speaker 2: Hamiltin and Macbeth were the new Stewart King, King James
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  Speaker 2: the First. James is also responsible for organizing the sixteen
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  Speaker 2: oh four Hamilton Core Conference that resulted in the publication
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  Speaker 2: of the King James Bible in sixteen eleven, the authorized
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  Speaker 2: version of the Bible in England. James' son Charles the
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  Speaker 2: First used the Palace to house much of his scarnishing
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  Speaker 2: art election, including Montanga's Triumph of Caesar's paintings. In sixteen
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  Speaker 2: forty seven, Charles found himself under the house arrest at
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  Speaker 2: Hamilton Corps after his defeat in the Civil War. The
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  Speaker 2: king must have felt a keen sense of irony when
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  Speaker 2: his art are aboard. The palace, became his temporary president
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  Speaker 2: and attempt to flee Oliber Cromwell's Parliamentation of parliament Parliamentarian's
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  Speaker 2: the King. He stayed through the Primary Guard. Charles was
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  Speaker 2: later recaptured and executed at sixteen forty nine OUCH. During
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  Speaker 2: the Commonwealth of sixteen forty nine to sixteen sixty Cromwell's
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  Speaker 2: saved the palace from destruction by making it his home
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  Speaker 2: despite his Burton ideals, properly caated fight art, probably through
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  Speaker 2: the tapestries, and enjoyed living like a king there. The
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful Canal was commissioned by Charles the Second sixteen sixty
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  Speaker 2: to sixteen eighty five and preparison for the arrival of
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  Speaker 2: his Preparation for his arrival was Brian Catherine of Bragazam
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  Speaker 2: bragga ZENA couple honeymoon in the palace and boats of
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  Speaker 2: shape of swans, selled up of the canal and romantic gesture.
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  Speaker 2: Charles Principal Mistress, Barbara Villainer's, Countress of Castlemaine, and their
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  Speaker 2: legiment and legitimate children were also installed at was also
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  Speaker 2: installed at the Hamilton Corps. The countess made changes of
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  Speaker 2: their own in the Browns, transforming entery the eights Old
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  Speaker 2: Orchard to a delightful wilderness. When William third and married
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  Speaker 2: the Second took the Throat in sixteen eighty nine, they
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  Speaker 2: asked pus fer Ware to design a new Bakewib palace
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  Speaker 2: for them. Rin escraped his scrapped his original plan to
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  Speaker 2: mass the whole palace and instead created a spectacular felt court,
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  Speaker 2: even much of the tutor place in attacks. William and
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  Speaker 2: Mary were also responsible for creating many of the most
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  Speaker 2: particular areas in the Hamilton Quarters to complement their new palace.
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  Speaker 2: These include the Grave Felton Garden, raided by Daniel Marriott
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  Speaker 2: and a new Privy Guard. The ye trees of the
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  Speaker 2: Great Fountain of Gardener, once or neatly prune, were later
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  Speaker 2: allowed to grow there present heighth by Capability brown Head
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  Speaker 2: Gardener in the mid eighteenth century. The origins of the
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  Speaker 2: famous maze are controversial, but is through It is thought
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  Speaker 2: that it was created at the seventeenth century. The maze
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  Speaker 2: first planet in hornbeam when replanted in the eighteenth or
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  Speaker 2: by the nineteen sixties the visitor proof you a hedges.
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  Speaker 2: The more authentic unthentistic hornbeam was also being re introduced.
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  Speaker 2: At the east end of the chapel, Royal once contained
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  Speaker 2: the great double window filled with Saint Glas expecting piculating
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  Speaker 2: Henry the Aid Catherine, Catherine of Ardon and Carna Woolsey.
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  Speaker 2: This was destroyed and the Commonwealth later of brick da
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  Speaker 2: and seventeen ten, Queen Anne commissioned the architects Sir Christopher
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  Speaker 2: Wrenn to remodel the chapel. He placed his brand timber
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  Speaker 2: reduced or altar screen over the brickwork. Wren also added
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  Speaker 2: box of cues and oregon and the staircase up and
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  Speaker 2: down Royal Pew. George First's main contribution to the palace
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  Speaker 2: was built in an oppressive suit of rooms of his own,
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  Speaker 2: his old son George, Prince of Wales and his wife,
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  Speaker 2: Princess Carolyn. The King also missioned a new kitchen today
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  Speaker 2: known as the Georgian House. When George the First returned
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  Speaker 2: in the summer to his native Manover. He agreed respectfully
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  Speaker 2: for the for the Prince and Princess to represent him
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  Speaker 2: into in England. They entertained lavishly in his absence, leading
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  Speaker 2: to a glittering court that outshower the old keys. Try me, guys,
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  Speaker 2: I had to do that. The influenced George the First
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  Speaker 2: tried to outdo his rival court and made a bigger
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  Speaker 2: impact in Hamilton Court. So in seventeen eighteen the Trudor
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  Speaker 2: the Tutor Tennis Court was refurbished as a grand assembly
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  Speaker 2: room and a great hall was diverted into a theater
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  Speaker 2: and King George the Second, and when King George the
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  Speaker 2: Second seated his father seventeen twenty seven, the palace entered
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  Speaker 2: his final phase. At royal residents George A Caroline and
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  Speaker 2: completed the work on their apartments and started new works
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  Speaker 2: for their younger members of the arch royal family. In
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  Speaker 2: seventeen thirty four, Queen Katherine invited her favorite architect and designer,
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  Speaker 2: William Kent to decorate the plain walls of the Queen's stairs.
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  Speaker 2: He created a Roman style design which included a tribute
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  Speaker 2: to Carolyn, whom they compared to the ancient Goddess of Britannia.
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  Speaker 2: By seventeen thirty seven, George the Second no longer wanted
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  Speaker 2: to use hamiltonk Court as royal palace. It was quickly
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  Speaker 2: filled with the great favor of residents. Many of them
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  Speaker 2: were are artistic widows and then straightened strengthened circumstances were
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  Speaker 2: offered free a minute commendation in the return of their
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  Speaker 2: husband's service to the monarch. The various apartments, although extremely rare,
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  Speaker 2: not always the most comfortable places to live. Residence regularly
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  Speaker 2: complained what the palace was virtually cold and damned. Some
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  Speaker 2: had no access to hot water. Apartments continued to bear
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  Speaker 2: as they as nineteen sixties. In eighteen thirty eight, when
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  Speaker 2: Victoria ordered the gates of Hampton Court Palace to be
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  Speaker 2: thrown open and all her subjects as an early act
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  Speaker 2: of generosity, the visitors thought the studying palace architecture and
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  Speaker 2: lost them and get lost in the maze and relax
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  Speaker 2: the beautiful gardens. Humbelton's Court Palace one of the few
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  Speaker 2: attractions open on a Sunday, the only day working people
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  Speaker 2: had to visit. Visitors arrived every possible means from vote
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  Speaker 2: to public coach. The journeys made earlier by rolled with
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  Speaker 2: Railways Ryan Hamilton Court in eighteen forty nine. However, the
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  Speaker 2: sun Rush was not altogether welcomed by the grace and
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  Speaker 2: flavor of residents who had previously enjoyed exclusive rights to
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  Speaker 2: the Palace gardens. They accomplished that the garden became the
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  Speaker 2: hell on Earth, People became intoxicated, and the scenes in
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  Speaker 2: the gardens of the Lord's day were beyond description. Despite
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  Speaker 2: the plaints, a number of visitors rostead of the year
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  Speaker 2: on ere the public were eager to novelty, and a
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  Speaker 2: potted the gardener's effort to put the palace grounds on
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  Speaker 2: the forefront of the fashion Patriarch displays masks Betty celebrate
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  Speaker 2: the coornation Henry I'm Sorry coornation of George the Fifth
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen eleven, for example. In nineteen twenty, further leisure
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  Speaker 2: activities were provided on the car park, which was located
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  Speaker 2: rather attractively on the West front. Visitors could take the
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  Speaker 2: tea and the Tellier Cafe, enjoy putting the green or
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  Speaker 2: putting on the Green, or playing game of tennis. Under
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  Speaker 2: nearly stall Park Palace is still magning it for visitors
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  Speaker 2: from all all over the world. One of the newest
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  Speaker 2: attractions for families was a tutor aspired Magic Gardens, which
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  Speaker 2: was opened in twenty sixteen by Dutchess of Cambridge. Two
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  Speaker 2: famous annual festivals Court the Hamilton Court the Music Festival
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  Speaker 2: and r a HS Flower Show, Stay True to Henry
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  Speaker 2: the Eighth Pasure Palace Principal and suburb art Collection and
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  Speaker 2: a perm resident a Barbara rotating some of the Royal
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  Speaker 2: let you his finest works that continues to light. And
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  Speaker 2: it also goes that sometimes you can also see Entry,
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  Speaker 2: the Entry, the Eighth, the sometimes there and other other figures,
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  Speaker 2: and they say that this marvelous place is uh it's
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  Speaker 2: very pictures they they show and it's really extravagant. And
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  Speaker 2: if you guys go there by any chance, if you're
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  Speaker 2: going to England, I would suggest to go there. I
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  Speaker 2: wish I'd go to England go to these places. Maybe
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