Hampton Court Palace - Americans in England Visit Henry the 8th's Favourite Palace

[@simplycm]

Love going to Hampton Court. Great whole day out. Many thanks.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Thank you!

[@SUPERGENKI]

Great travel video guys, very entertaining - A great pleasure to watch. Thumbs way up from Guangzhou, China via Denmark... Thomas

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Thanks so much! Our son just arrived in Norway yesterday. First time anyone in our family has visited Scandinavia!

[@TravelHungryForLife]

Very nice throughout here friends All the best big thumbs up cheers 👌🏻👌🏻🤗🤗👍🏻👍🏻

[@GulliversCovers]

Masterful presentation, MOT👍 ✨ Keep up the awesome work! Best wishes and see you ~

[@terrym3837]

As a Londoner the palace is worth a visit, if in central London get the boat to Hampton Court very civilised

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@terrym3837 i would love to take the boat! That sounds really fun.

[@PostcardAndAPint]

We really enjoyed this Dara. What an incredible place. The tapestries are stunning. I think our favourites were the massive fire and bread oven!! We both reckon you did eat cake!! What beautiful gardens and the private view of the Thames is very special!! Terrible joke!! Bark/bite - even by Wills standards (and you know how low that is) - it was a howler! Cheers 🍻

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Yep! Trent is quite the punster! But I can't wait to see him in Berlin this Friday. SO EXCITED!!! 🙌

[@TV-jd8pz]

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[@nafex3740]

Beautiful place 😍 💕 ❤️ Happy week to you 😂😂😂

[@AlphaTraveler1]

What a beautiful place. Surprised it is so well kept. Amazing. 👍👍👍

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Having a lot of money helps 😉

[@KJFOODCORNER]

amazing place

[@IamaDutch-Kiwi]

Oh not only was that an amazing visit to a jaw dropping awesome place but having your son there must have been the icing on the cake Dara and Ian?! Now there’s a place I’d like to see. 👌🇳🇱🙋‍♀️🥝

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Yes a historic place I'd been wanting to visit for ages... made better by being with some of my favourite people!

[@user-man-now80]

That was very interesting and well presented. I learned quite a lot from it. Thank you !

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Thank you so much for watching, and taking the time to comment! Cheers! Dara

[@JohnandCaraRetiredTravellers]

What a beautiful palace! I could have looked at the tapestry's for hours. Stunning! Wish we had time to visit on our upcoming trip. I'll have to put it on the list. Wonderful way to spend the day with two of your favorite people, excellent video Dara. Thanks for taking us along- Cara :)

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@JohnandCaraRetiredTravellers you are going Blenheim, right? It also has nice tapestries ❤️

[@mariahoulihan9483]

not sure aboutr now biut they had devised a projection system.. high tech.. to project the true colours of the tapestry in the Great hall onto them. Apparently it was spectacular.

[@lizbignell2820]

My brother-in-law is having his book launch at Blenheim tomorrow so if you are there do keep your eye out for him.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@lizbignell2820 congrats to him! Too bad I'm in Germany right now. What is his book title and what is it about?

[@lizbignell2820]

It is about ancient trees, especially oaks. It was always thought that the oldest oaks in Britain were in Windsor Great Park but my bil found it is actually in Blenheim Home Park which is why the launch is there.

[@tracyglasgow5571]

What an interesting palace. I loved seeing the tapestries, mural, & ceilings!

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

It was a uniquely historic palace. Next time I go, I definitely want to take the boat down the Thames to get there! Wouldn't that be fun?

[@alexshapley8331]

👍 one of the best HC videos I have seen - kudos to you!

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Wow, thanks! That's great to hear! 🩷

[@nigelhamilton815]

Fabulous place to visit. Enjoy.

[@tonywilkinson6895]

You two are still the best at historical content. ❤

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Aww, thanks so much, Tony!

[@theresabigwideworld2632]

Watching the king eat, hmmmm very much 'feeding time at the zoo!!' Hampton Court Palace is well worth visiting and it's a nice location as well. I'm also a fan of wisteria and it's currently blooming in my front garden, there's 2 different types a heritage one which has darker purple flowers and the standard violet coloured one, they both smell lovely.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@theresabigwideworld2632 i'm jealous of you having lovely wisteria! Next time I visit Hampton Court Palace, I would love to take a boat there on the Thames!

[@robertwatford7425]

I was born about 300yds from the Palace and grew up about a mile away. As kids we would ride our bikes through Bushy Park and pay 3d to go into The Maze. As a kid I was told (and recently had confirmed) that there are 127 chimneys on the palace and every one has a unique design in the brickwork.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Wow! How fascinating to grow up in the shadow of HCP! Very interesting about the chimneys!

[@paulguise698]

Hiya Dara, I watched this vlog this morning, it was nice to see Trent, I asked my Dad was it Edward V11 with all the wives, Dad replied with "that was Henry V111", I've heard Henry wanted to marry Mary Queen Of Scots mother, she was called Mary Guise, but Mary turned him down and married James 4th instead, but Henry's sister Margaret married James (don't know what reginal number he was), Anne Boleyn was executed on May 19th 1536, the Tower Of London put a bouquet of flowers down on her resting place, because it was a miscarriage of justice, that's your history lesson for today Dara, I hope you enjoyed it, this is Choppy

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Yes I did! Thanks, Choppy!

[@grapesodatravels]

We have never visited HCP but it's on our to do list. It's tricky to visit from north of London as there's no trains across town. Is there a car park nearby? The fabulous historian Lucy Worsley works here. If we bumped into her here, I would squeal with giddiness!

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@grapesodatravels I bumped into her at Kensington Gardens! It's in my recent video on my best friend's first impressions of England... at the very beginning! We drove to HCP and parked in the car park. We normally don't drive into London, but because we were retrieving both of our sons from Heathrow airport, it was a necessity.

[@carolineskipper6976]

Last time I visited Hampton Court Palace on a cold winter's day, there was a full on re-enactment of a day in the life of the Tudor Kitchens, with all the fires burning and food being prepared. What really struck me was that in that vast space the heat from the fires had created a microclimate and ACTUAL SNOW WAS FALLING INSIDE THE KITCHEN!!!!!! The hot steamy air from the cooking had risen up into the vaulted roof, where it hit freezing air, and came down as snow. (It was not a snowy, or even icy, day outside). This is 100% a true story!!!!!

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

That is amazing! What a unique experience! I saw a college professor do a demonstration once in a classroom at the university where he made it rain inside the room! Similar type scientific experiment 😉

[@mariahoulihan9483]

well, not 'actual' snow now was it?

[@carolineskipper6976]

@@mariahoulihan9483 What is 'actual' snow then? It was snowflakes, falling down from up near the ceiling. They landed on my arms for a few moments before melting - just like 'real' snow. In my books that's 'actual' snow.

[@nicksykes4575]

Hi Dara, it's quite possible a local boy was wandering around there in the 16th century, Richard Tarleton, son of a farmer from Condover in Shropshire, was Elizabeth 1sts court jester, although he was short, hunch-backed and very ugly, no-one dared make fun of him, besides having a razor sharp wit, he was also an expert swordsman. Apparently he is the inspiration for Shakespeares character Yorick.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Oh that's a very fun bit of history!

[@vongtaynhanaikptt6066]

Hello my best friend very nice video

[@aorlanguages]

I went to Hampton Court as a small child with my mother, my aunt and her cousins. I remember almost nothing! This was a very nice portrayal of the palace that really makes me want to go there! I'll put it on my list! Many thanks

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@aorlanguages I'm glad my video made you think about a return trip. Sounds like your first visit was a while ago! 😉

[@AidanEyewitness]

@@MagentaOtterTravelsOh dear I’m getting my channels mixed up! Yes I think it was around 1966, just a few years ago, when I was eight! That was a great time to visit London. ‘Strangers in the Night’ always reminds me of waiting at night for the number 11 bus to Hammersmith with my mum. That was a hit in 1966. 😊

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@AidanEyewitness ha ha, I didn't realise it was you Aidan! Fun memories! I love that you tie music to your memories .

[@mariahoulihan9483]

re your thing about dead heading tulips. You do not do this if you want to reuse the bulbs (leave them in the ground to come the next year). The head and foilage has to be left to die back and onlyo then cut at the base to neaten. They will come year on year after that as they are perrenials.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Really? That is very interesting. As you may have guessed, I know absolutely nothing about gardening! Lol But I'm sure they do want to have the tulips come back the next year. And I'm certain those gardeners know what they're doing! 🤓

[@Smartychase]

Oh my Gosh the honour of watching the King eat whilst you are starving hungry lol 😮

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@Smartychase right?! Rude to the point of being cruel.

[@peterliu3855]

3:16 Hampton Court isn’t a Castle! I’m enjoying your video, I was there a few months ago and had a lovely day out

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@peterliu3855 ooooh I slipped up! I beg your forgiveness 🙏. I'm actually much more familiar with Hampton Court Castle in Herefordshire. I have been there a number of times.

[@john0597]

I'm from London and believe it or not I've only been to Hampton Court once start me and my wife and now our daughter will be going there later on this year probably near Christmas I am very proud of I heritage and architecture there's so many places in England I haven't been yet which I want to go to and hopefully I will get around to it but I am looking forward to going to Hampton Court again great video by the way I watched this Sunday the 8th of September 24

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@john0597 thank you for watching the video! We love history and architecture as well, and there are just countless places to see in Britain! Sometimes it's difficult to even get to the ones right under your nose 😉. I hope you have a great time when you go visit later this year. Cheers! Dara

[@john0597]

@@MagentaOtterTravels I was going to say I was going to suggest if you do you like trains the reason I say that I don't know if you have been to York yet up in York especially around Christmas time where is a market Christmas Market me and my wife and daughter will be going to Hampton Court near Christmas because they will be a Christmas market on there we also maybe this year want to go to York cos there's a Christmas market there as well x

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@john0597 we have been to York a couple times, but I have never spent Christmas time in Britain. I'm only there during the summer. But I'm hoping to get there over the Christmas holidays one of these years!

[@jamesbeeching6138]

What a amazing place.... I visited in the late 80s and it wasn't this renovated!!!

[@terrym3837]

The fire destroyed much of improbably why it looks so good

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

It was very well maintained now!

[@terrym3837]

@@MagentaOtterTravels Yes it is it was in a dreadful state

[@SusanCampbell-j1f]

I live about 15 mins drive away and embarrassed to say have never been inside the Palace. Visited the beautiful gardens on many occasions.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@SusanCampbell-j1f is t that the way life is? We overlook the things that are right under our noses. Maybe you need to have a friend come visit who tells you to go see it with them!

[@georgedyson9754]

Did you visit the Great Vine? It is claimed to be over 250 years old and the largest vine in the world

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@georgedyson9754 no, I am ashamed to say I did not! As is often the case, I didn't have a chance to properly research this place before we went! Otherwise I would have... 😬🙄

[@WITYTRAVELS]

Jane, stop being a fool! What an impressive crown. You need a fireplace like that! What did you make in the bread oven?

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@WITYTRAVELS delicious bread of course! 🩷🍞

[@Andy_U]

Hiya. Did you attempt the Maze? And Ian must have a portrait of himself in the attic/loft. Stay safe. All the best to you.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Yes it's annoying that Ian doesn't age!!! We didn't see the maze... they were setting up for a big festival or fair, and that might be why we didn't see it.

[@griswald7156]

The hushed tones at the back of a church during a service to commemorate the dead…but this is an architectural treasure lets party !!!

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

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[@jeanlongsden1696]

was you Anne Boleyn (ambling) around the Palace looking at the architecture? did you show the actors your version of "A Midsummers Night Dream" by showing them your Bottom. lol

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Yes I was ambling around but definitely no on the mooning! 😳

[@jeanlongsden1696]

@@MagentaOtterTravels I meant the character Nick Bottom, not yours. lol

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@jeanlongsden1696 🤣

[@lizbignell2820]

Poor Queen Anne. I always feel sorry for her. We do have her to thank for racing at Ascot though.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Definitely! On both points. 😉

[@GENerationXplorers]

Gosh everything so pristine, very impressive. Like the eavesdroppers! So many tapestries. I like Henry’s skirts, more Kings should wear them! Personal Fool, great job title. What a fancy waiting room. Watch the monarch eat, why do I feel that’s going to be a tv show down the line? 🧐 what the heck board game is that? Like a medieval monopoly. Wow that’s a great mural on the staircase. Sweet potato and kale pie? Thats a video in itself! Weights from back then? Definitely behind with the green fingered beheading! Interesting gardens! ❤

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@GENerationXplorers I'm Ian's Personal Fool 🤪! To be honest that veggie pie was not good. I usually get much better vegetarian fare in Britain. Here in Bavaria I'm eating a lot of meat, though! Thanks for watching! XX

[@lizbignell2820]

King Charles often wears a kilt!

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@lizbignell2820 yes he does! I love it! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@grahvis]

Back in the 50s, you could get a permit to fish from what was then the Ministry of Works. It allowed you to fish in waters owned by the Government, such as Hampton Court. I never fished in the Long Water, just in the ponds across the road in Bushey Park.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@grahvis that's interesting that you could fish there!

[@terrym3837]

@@MagentaOtterTravels Me and a mate used to fish at night by the river in front of the palace

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@terrym3837 oooh sneaky!

[@cordeliaadams4898]

Hampton Court was built by Cardinal Wolsey for himself, but Henry VIII saw it and became jealous of the magnificence of this palace and confiscated it when Wolsey fell out of grace.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

That is so wild! It really seems like H8 just took whatever he wanted!

[@davidmcdonagh7756]

Fabulous palace, Henry the eighth had another great palace called Nonsuch that no longer exists and believed to be more fabulous than Hampton court.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@davidmcdonagh7756 that's interesting! What happened to it?

[@davidmcdonagh7756]

@@MagentaOtterTravels They knocked it down and sold the building materials to pay off Charles the second gambling debts.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@davidmcdonagh7756 oh goodness! What a terrible legacy to leave!

[@neilbuckley1613]

@@MagentaOtterTravels Actually Charles II granted it to his Mistress, Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland. She had it torn down and the materials sold off to pay her gambling debts. That said, Charles was not maintaining the place and it had beem heglected during the Republic.

[@misolgit69]

I went on a school trip must have been maybe 1962/3 don't remember much

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@misolgit69 I can imagine, Bill! That's a minute ago!

[@jamesbeeching6138]

Are you back in Britain??

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

No... I filmed Hampton Court May 2023. We are currently in the Czech Republic!

[@joanne26]

Where you live anywhere in the 🌍you don’t visit what is near you. For whatever reason. Example I’ve only ever been to Warwick Castle once - a school trip when I was about 8-10 years old. I’m 59 Where I live it will be around 1 hour away I visited Hampton Court Palace 1996/7 with my late mother Princess Diana was still alive then and the RHS were getting ready for her to visit Not been back since Must go again My paternal cousin lives about 15 mins away She never gets the time to go 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😃😃😃😄😄😄❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Well, I hope you make a point to go to Warwick Castle as well as Hampton Court Palace! They both are pretty amazing and interesting places!

[@stephengraham5099]

I knew you would pronounce Tudor as Tooder. It is chew-der.😀

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@stephengraham5099 I know that British people pronounce it chew-der... I've had that lecture before. And I decided that I would start pronouncing Tudor that way once British people start saying my name correctly! 😂

[@stephengraham5099]

Dara? I would pronounce it with a 'hard' A, as in Tara in Gone With The Wind, not as in the words air or dare.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@stephengraham5099 it's like Dare-uh. Watch my "first 60 years" life story video I did for my birthday. I make a joke about that at the beginning. Brits almost always refuse to pronounce Dara to rhyme with Sarah because they disapprove of the fact there is no H at the end of my name. I have family members who don't say it "correctly" 😉

[@stephengraham5099]

@@MagentaOtterTravels I'm another Brit who got it wrong. 😇 I've been called Stafan !

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@stephengraham5099 😂

[@Poliss95]

Hadrian Imp. I know him. My dad worked at one of his shops. Did you see my guide on how to recognise church building eras Dara? Great watching chamber? My boy Vlad just bought a 'Rolex'. Boleyn sounds just like a Russian swear word. 😂 Watching the king eat sounds like a punishment. Drools everywhere. Drawing room used to be called 'Withdrawing room' because that's where you would withdraw to after dinner. Just the men of course. I have a theory that 4 poster beds were to keep you warm with the curtains around. I could do with one. 9:54 I'm sure that's hot water pastry on those pies, so you HAVE eaten it. I have one of those circular cake tins with a hole in the middle. 10:11 She looks like The White Queen. Did you paint the roses magenta for her? 10:59 I'm sure the poor plebs had to eat vegetarian pies. Maybe just in time for sweet potatoes in England? I don't think they would have had lemons back then. Lemons are a more modern invention. They don't grow in the wild.

[@neilbuckley1613]

Ihe plebs were generally fed Umble pie, made from Umbles, Deer and sheep intestines. The saying " eating humble pie" originates from this.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

I would not want to eat umble pie! 🥧 Unfortunately, I have had to eat humble pie, and I didn't enjoy that either...

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Four poster beds with curtains I assume provided people with warmth as well as privacy 😉 She does look like the white queen! Why was Ian sent to his room? It was Trent that made the terrible pun ... 😉

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Thank you, as always, for the obscure trivia! Sorry it has taken me so long to respond! Travel craziness...

[@Poliss95]

@@MagentaOtterTravels You should know how bad my memory is by now Dara. 🤪

[@terrym3837]

Eels are not great

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@terrym3837 yeah, I might try jellied eels sometime just to film a video about it. But I don't expect to like them!

[@terrym3837]

@@MagentaOtterTravels They are an acquired taste

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@terrym3837 I believe you!

[@grahvis]

I used to give eels to my mother, she was very fond of them.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@grahvis incomprehensible! lol Seriously, what's to like?

[@COMEINTOMYWORLD]

Love going to Hampton Court. Great whole day out. Many thanks.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@COMEINTOMYWORLD thanks for watching! 🤗

[@griswald7156]

The tower would convert to a Mosque with aplomb..