New Research at the Palaces – Antarctic Exploration and Grace and Favour

Historic Royal Palaces Podcast

Historic Royal Palaces

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4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Hampton Court Palace has an unexpected connection to the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, the wedding of famous explorer Captain Scott and sculptor Kathleen Bruce took place in the Chapel Royal.

We follow Assistant Curator Minette Butler as she explores a shut-off part of the Palace, highlighting how new research into Grace and Favour residents is revealing such curious connections, as well as opening up the lives of the Palace’s most recent residents.

In this new series, we’ll be exploring fresh research that is taking place in our Palaces. We won’t be releasing this series sequentially, so these episodes will appear throughout the year.

To read more about the wedding of Captain Scott and Kathleen Bruce go to:

www.hrp.org.uk/blog/captain-scott-and-kathleen-bruces-wedding-at-hampton-court-palace

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Historic Royal Palaces podcast.
0:03.8	What better way to start the new year than with some new research for our listeners.
0:07.8	I'm Annette Butler, an assistant curator here at the Palaces.
0:11.3	Today's episode is the first in the series where we'll be exploring new research that's taking place in our palaces.
0:17.2	We won't be releasing this sequentially, so these episodes will appear throughout the year.
0:21.6	Historic Royal Palaces is an independent research organisation, and that means there is always a lot going on behind the scenes to make sure that we present the history of our palaces properly, and that's what this new series is all about.
0:33.6	We want to share with you any new research projects or new discoveries, from the buildings themselves to the objects and the people who have lived in them,
0:41.3	we hope this series brings new light to some history for you.
0:49.3	So we are standing here at Hampton Court Palace just along tennis court lane.
0:58.0	We're a little bit behind the scenes.
1:00.0	So we're standing towards the end and as I look down I can see quite a lot of staff coming and going.
1:05.0	Lots of cars, lots of people bringing things in out of theitchens, still a quite a busy space.
1:11.6	And we are about to go upstairs into a part of the palace that not many people who actually
1:16.3	work here get to see. We are going to go behind the scenes to have a look at an old Grace
1:21.1	and Favour apartment. Now, some of our listeners might have heard a little bit about Grace
1:25.4	and Favour before. I believe we've mentioned it a couple of times on our podcast.
1:29.3	The short answer is Grace and Favour refers to lodgings, apartments,
1:34.3	parts of the palace that people were given warrants to live in during the late 18th, 19th century,
1:41.3	generally for people who were seen as basically being rewarded for their own or their family service to the country or to the monarch.
1:50.0	And it turned into a real way of life right here at Hampton Court. So we're going to be talking a little bit about what that life was like.
2:04.5	So let's head upstairs and we can go and explore a grace and favour apartment that we still have inside the palace today. So here we
2:16.3	are we've come upstairs up into apartment 24, quite a lot of stairs, in fact.
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