Embroil yourself in one of our exciting and creative half term activities that the whole family can enjoy!
Best of all you can enjoy all of our half-term events for free with HRP family membership from as little as £55! With so much history to explore spend a day, the weekend or more at the palaces!
Paintings around the palace
Hampton Court Palace
19-27 February
Come and follow the portrait trail around the palace and join arts and craft workshops in the Clore Learning Centre daily from 11.00 - 16.00
Hear amazing stories about the artists who produced some of the magnificent paintings hanging in the palace and the unusual stories of the people they painted!
- The adventures of Jeffrey Hudson: hear the tallest story of the littlest man. In the Queen's Presence Chamber (Mary II's Apartments)
- The Winter Queen: hear about the rise and fall of this most mysterious lady. In the King's Presence Chamber (William III's Apartments)
- The Giant Porter: hear how the tallest man in London found a home at the court of Elizabeth I. In the Horn Room (Henry VIII's Apartments)
Times vary throughout the week. See the Order of Service for more details at www.hrp.org.uk
All the King's Fools
Hampton Court Palace
11.00 & 14.00
Learn about the lives of jesters and fools in the court of King Henry VIII.
Join Peet Cooper of Foolscap Productions and the Misfits Theatre Company in a ground-breaking interpretive performance about “natural” fools in Tudor times.
Based on detailed historic research by historian Dr Suzannah Lipscomb, in collaboration with the director and actors, ‘All the King’s fools’ reveals that the most famous jesters of the mid sixteenth century were learning disabled, that their performances delighted and entertained the King and his court and that their influence extended through the centuries.
The programme will consist of a promenade performance followed by the giving of a gift to the King – once in the morning and repeated in the afternoon.
