Hampton Court Palace
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Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, 12 miles southwest and upstream of central London on the River Thames.
Hampton Court Palace, west front, Richmond upon Thames
Hampton Court Palace, with marked reference points referred to on this page. A: West Front & Main Entrance; B: Base Court; C: Clock Tower; D: Clock Court, E: Fountain Court; F: East Front; G: South Front; H: Banqueting House; J: Great Hall; K: River Thames; L: Pond Gardens; M: East Gardens; O: Cardinal Wolsey's Rooms; P: Chapel.
An original Tudor roasting hearth in the Great Kitchens
Christopher Wren's south front (G on plan), built for William III and Mary II, viewed from the Privy Garden
George II of Great Britain
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George II was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death in 1760.
Hampton Court Palace
…palace's styles are an accident of fate, a unity exists due to the use of pink bricks and a symmetrical, if vague, balancing of successive low wings. George II was the last monarch to reside in the palace. The palace structure and its grounds are cared for by an independent charity, Historic Royal Palaces, and…
George as a young boy with his mother and sister
Princess Caroline by Godfrey Kneller, 1716
London, c. 1710