Southwest of London, on the shores of the River Thames (~distance Bp-Gödöllő). Built in the Tudor Style (similar to St James's Palace in London)

by Cardinal Wolsey, the chief minister of Henry VIII. Wolsey gave Hampton Court Palace to Henry as a gift when he failed to get the pope's permission for Henry's (1st) divorce. Henry married his 3rd wife here: Jane Seymour, (a day after he had his 2nd wife beheaded in the Tower: Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth's mother). Henry's only (legitimate) son: Edward VI was born here a year later (1537) but Jane died two weeks later in childbed fever.

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