A Space I Love - Henry VIII’s bedroom with Cara Gathern

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Historic Royal Palaces

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4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

This week is the penultimate episode in our six-part mini-series and today we are in for a treat!

Curatorial placement student Cara Gathern takes us into one of the most exciting but hidden spaces at Hampton Court Palace, Henry VIII’s bedroom. It may not look like a royal Tudor bedroom today, but Cara will reveal how this space has transported her to the past, and particularly to the medicinal practices of the health-obsessed Tudor king.

To find out more about this subject go to:

https://www.hrp.org.uk/blog/henry-viii-medicines

To find out more about opportunities and further education at Historic Royal Palaces go to:

https://www.hrp.org.uk/about-us/research/ma-in-heritage-management

https://www.hrp.org.uk/about-us/work-for-us/apprenticeships

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0:00.0	Hello listeners, welcome to this new mini-series on the Historic Royal Palaces podcast.
0:06.0	I'm Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator, and in this six-part series, our curator's team will be venturing into some of our favourite spaces in the palaces.
0:15.0	Now, my colleagues and I have chosen these spaces especially in the hope that we can transport you to some of our favourite moments in history.
0:22.6	So please get ready to escape to the past with us.
0:30.6	Hello, I'm Kara. I'm a PhD student and I'm on a work placement here at Historic Royal Palaces.
0:34.6	It's very busy in the palace today. It's open to visitors.
0:38.3	So I've come to Chapel Court for a little bit of quiet. All around us we've got these wonderful Tudor buildings and you can even smell the fire from the privy kitchens and it really gives us a little taste of what's to come in these spaces that we're going to be exploring.
0:52.3	So let's head off to this space that we're going to be looking at today now.
0:56.0	So today I'm going to be looking at a really unique space in Hampton Court Palace
1:01.0	and this is called the Bain Tower and it was built for King Henry the 8th in 1529
1:05.0	and used by Henry until about 1537 and it's in a very different state than it was when Henry was using it.
1:11.2	But originally it was built as Henry's very own private apartments. So I really love this
1:16.9	space because when I did my interview to come and do this placement at Hunter Court Palace,
1:21.0	this was one of the first spaces that I saw. This is the first kind of behind-the-scenes space
1:26.2	that I saw and on top of the fact that it links so much to the things that I'm studying at the moment
1:33.8	in terms of Henry V. 8's private spaces, his private staff and the private practices surrounding
1:38.3	them, it's also really special for me because of that link to the first time I ever came here.
1:45.0	It's so exciting that I've been able to come and talk about this and share this with you today.
1:50.0	So let's head inside to the apartments now and have a look around.
1:59.0	So we're just heading up the stairs now.
2:01.6	It's pretty dark and creepy in here at the moment.
2:05.6	So we've just gone up the stairs now. So we've just gone up the stairs now and we're now in the space which actually would have been Henry the 8's bedroom.
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