Today I went to Hampton Court Palace. It is the most amazing palace. It actually looks like a palace, not like Buckingham Palace. Besides the scaffolding it is quite amazing. The gardens are huge and there is a cool little maze as well. It is pretty small, but enough to get easily lost in. It seems like most Kings and Queens especially the Tudors and Stuarts had their own rooms in the Palace, there seemed to be about 3 different Queens apartments and Kings apartments, private dining rooms, drawing rooms, closets, we even found a toilet, with a velvet seat. I would not fancy trying to keep that thing clean.
There were a lot of rooms that were designed by queens, but not completed until after their deaths and then another queen got to enjoy them. There were a lot of tapestries with intricate designs and a lot paintings, most had very religious overtones and then there were also lots of naked women.
The whole place just made me want to be a queen, though the beds were really tiny. At least I would feel tall back then.
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