HAMPSON COURT PALACE GARDENS
Hampton Court History in Brief Hampton Court Palace sits on the banks of the Thames in Surrey. Cardinal Woolsey transformed Hampton Court, a grand house when he acquired it, into a sprawling palace in the mid- 16th century. So impressed was Henry VIII with the Cardinal’s palace that Woolsey “gifted” it to the King (he really did not have a choice in the matter). Of all of his palaces, Hampton