A lot of people ask me about whether the palace was bombed during the Second World War. Some people believe the story that Hampton Court Palace was going to be Hitler’s headquarters once he had invaded the country in 1940. I haven’t found anything to substantiate that. But I have read that one night in September 1940, it seems accidentally, a large number of incendiary bombs were dropped on the palace.
Particularly dangerous in a building with a very large amount of wood in it!
