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The Chocolate Kitchens

Where royal chocolate makers prepared this expensive delicacy

The story of Hampton Court Palace

Home of Henry VIII and the Tudor dynasty

Life at the Tudor court

In the Tudor period, a monarch’s home was centre of the nation

Historic hauntings at Hampton Court Palace

Centuries of ghosts and grim tales

Henry VIII’s kitchens

Preparing up to a thousand meals a day

Henry VIII's children

All three ruled England

Anne of Cleves

‘I like her not.’ The wife rejected by Henry VIII

Katherine Parr

Henry VIII's last queen: wife, nurse and loving stepmother

Katherine of Aragon

Henry VIII's first wife. She was 23, he was 17