This huge red-brick palace sprawls in lush green grounds of Surrey and was Henry VIII's favourite dwelling in all of England! The grand rooms are fit for a king, decorated with paintings, velvet drapes and lashings of gold. Make sure you check out the royal kitchens, they were a big part of Tudor life at Hampton Court Palace and in any one day, up to 1,200 members of Henry's court might feast on wild boar and beer. Cooking for hundreds of people with no mod-cons can't have been easy; come and find out how they did it!