<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Website </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> www.hrp.org.uk </Td> </Tr> <P> Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, England, 11.7 miles (18.8 kilometres) south west and upstream of central London on the River Thames . Building of the palace began in 1515 for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, a favourite of King Henry VIII . In 1529, as Wolsey fell from favour, the King seized the palace for himself and later enlarged it . Along with St James's Palace, it is one of only two surviving palaces out of the many owned by King Henry VIII . </P> <P> In the following century, King William III's massive rebuilding and expansion project, which destroyed much of the Tudor palace, was intended to rival Versailles . Work ceased in 1694, leaving the palace in two distinct contrasting architectural styles, domestic Tudor and Baroque . While the palace's styles are an accident of fate, a unity exists due to the use of pink bricks and a symmetrical, if vague, balancing of successive low wings . King George II was the last monarch to reside in the palace . </P>

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