Gareth Russell (Hampton Court Palace)

Rex Factor

History

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🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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We speak to the historian Gareth Russell about his book The Palace, which covers the history of Hampton Court Palace, from the Tudors to the Windsors. It's a fascinating book (and podcast!) covering lots of fascinating characters - from Henry VIII and George III to chocolatiers and the Romanovs. For more on Gareth, you can find him on Twitter (https://x.com/garethrussell1) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/_garethrussell) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Welcome to Rex Factor.
0:40.0	This week, Gareth Russell on Hampton Court Palace.
0:47.0	With your hosts Graham Duke and Ali
1:03.4	Hello and welcome to Rex Factor where today we're not reviewing all the Queen and Prince Consuls of England from elsewhere to Prince Philip but instead we are midway through our interview run of
1:08.5	episodes and today we're going to be talking to the historian Gareth Russell
1:12.1	about Hampton Court Palace.
1:15.0	I managed to get the war in as well, didn't I?
1:17.0	Obviously he got the war in, didn't really?
1:19.0	Well, I suppose I got out with the first in, but, uh...
1:21.0	Yeah.
1:22.0	Start and ending with sort of pre Spanish Civil War period and ending there as well which is nice.
1:32.4	Yes a lot of people will associate Hampton Court with the Tudors and Henry the 8th which of course
1:38.0	there is an awful lot of Tudor history as we discussed but actually surprisingly a very long history that goes up right to, well, the 21st century
1:46.0	almost pretty much to modern day.
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