Headed down to Hampton Court Palace today, 1/2 an hour train ride from home. It is quite amazing to think that some of the doors you pass through were passed through by King Henry VIII over 450 years ago. As for the todays photo, well it is a photo of something else that belongs to the crown. Strange but true. Some other photos here.
i felt the same way walking through Versailles - you walk through Marie-Antoinette's chamber and you think, "there's the secret door she ran through, terrified, when the revolutionaries stormed the castle wanting to behead her."
ReplyDeletethe sheer history of it all can knock you off your feet. you just don't get that kind of history in Canada - or in Australia, for that matter.
It also makes me realise how little history I know!
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