The great roasting fire with spits at the great kitchens at Hampton Court Palace. Now divided into three large rooms. Originally built for Cardinal Wolsey, favourite of Henry the VIII. Henry took it over. It was later due to be demiolished and replaced with a palace to overshadow Versailles in France by William III., but this was only half completed and today there are two palaces side by side in the Richmond-upon-Thames site
The great roasting fire with spits at the great kitchens at Hampton Court Palace. Now divided into three large rooms. Originally built for Cardinal Wolsey, favourite of Henry the VIII. Henry took it over. It was later due to be demiolished and replaced with a palace to overshadow Versailles in France by William III., but this was only half completed and today there are two palaces side by side in the Richmond-upon-Thames site
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