A Space I Love - The Wolsey Closet with Charles Farris

Historic Royal Palaces Podcast

Historic Royal Palaces

London, Palace, Tower, Historic, Conservation, Royal, Lecture, Learning, Kensington, Hampton, Kew, Banqueting, History, Court, Of, House, Palaces

4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week is the third part of our mini-series on spaces we love. We’ll be joining curator Charles Farris who has chosen to take us on a gentle stroll into a small but rather special Tudor space, hidden away in the depths of Hampton Court Palace. Charles will help us imagine how this space may have witnessed some of the biggest moments in Henry VIII’s reign.

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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
0:21.9	history. So please get ready to escape to the past with us.
0:33.3	So we are at Hampton Court Palace. It is a lovely day. There is the sun just
0:41.0	peeping through the clouds. There are blue skies roughly all around. So yeah, a
0:47.1	rather lovely day to be here at Hampton Court Palace. We are in Base Court
0:53.4	whereas I'm going to start our journey today.
0:56.4	This is of course one of the first great ranges of buildings built by Cardinal Walsy
1:03.7	for his great brick palace in about 1515. What would have been here in the past well there would have been possibly
1:13.1	some of Woolsey's accommodation there would have been accommodation for
1:18.7	visitors ambassadors people like that and also the wardrobe had offices
1:24.1	here in base court as well so a busy hub of space and you can probably hear some of our
1:30.5	interpretation sound effects in the background some horses coming in and perhaps if we were here 500-odd years ago
1:37.7	we would see a hunting party returning from from the hunt of noble lords and ladies, possibly the king, coming back from
1:47.4	a day's hunting. But yes, it would have been a busy space and a dramatic space as well.
1:55.5	So on with the show, as they say, my name is Charles and I am a curator here at Historic Royal
2:03.5	Palaces I'm usually actually based at the Tower of London but it's wonderful to
2:07.2	be here at Hampton Court Palace where I actually began my career with Historic Royal
2:12.2	Palaces and I'm going to be showing you today one of my favourite rooms or spaces in all the
2:20.2	palaces that we care for and it's a little room it's you might oh that's the
2:25.9	bell going because it's a quarter past the hour and yes it's a it's a small
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