To kick off this term’s history topic, we visited Hampton Court Palace to get a taste of Tudor life and even meet some of them!
We got to walk around the gardens, visited Henry in his apartments and even did some cooking in the kitchen!
What was your favourite part?
The gardens were beautiful!
-Henry V III had a fondness for fart Jokes and other less sociable body functions.
– He built a 2-story, communal public lavatory with 14 seats at Hampton Court. (The mind boggles at 14 people all sitting together doing their “business.”)
– He was a big gambler and in two years it was recorded he lost £3,250 on cards.
-By the end of his life, his waistline measured 4 and half feet around and there were mechanical devices made to get him in and out of bed…. and on and off his horse.
-Katherine had a great fondness for monkeys and had them as pets because they reminded her of her homeland, Spain.
-Anne owned dogs and it was recorded that she had a Greyhound named Urian and a poodle named Purkoy reportedly named for the French word pourquoi,
Meaning, “why. The little dog fell out a window and was killed a few weeks before Anne’s execution and no one wanted to tell her because they knew how much she loved the little dog
-Jane had very strict dress codes for her ladies, once replacing one of her ladies whole wardrobe just
because it was in the French fashion.
-Elizabeth the 1 was the last Tudor monarch.
-Elizabeth killed her cousin Mary queen of Scots by executing her as Mary had apparently tried to permit treason.
-Elizebeth never married.
It sounds like you had lots of fun – I wish I could have been there.
The bloody tower was cool!