Trouble in the court! Adventures at Hampton Court Palace!

Hampton Court Palace was truly a great sight to behold. While very different looking than London Tower or other old palaces it was not meant for withstanding a siege. This palace was made to be a work of art as was very easy to tell through the immense amount of artistic expression that could be seen while exploring this massive palace. There were extravagant pieces of art hung all throughout the palace and the décor was of the highest class. There were paintings of everyone of any note that had lived there and rooms were extremely over sized in comparison to the number of people living in each room. All of the outfits were of the finest quality and were made to accentuate the desired bodily shapes of each gender. You can tell that people really took pride in the place that they were living in. As we walked in to the dining hall we were greeted by King George the I from Hanover, Germany. He was sitting at an elegant table with an extravagant feast laid out in front of him. He began to speak to us about how proud he was about how large his buffet was and how the people were all starving but found satisfaction and happiness from watching their king eat. He then went on about how fancy his hall was and began to brag about all of the folded napkins and how artsy they were. There was everything from folded flowers to folded napkin animals all over the table and he would not stop talking about how elegant the Hanover people’s art of napkin folding was and how we must be so impressed. Unfortunately, the happiness did not last. The King was having a feud with his son the Prince of Wales and we were later brought in to the thick of it during our ‘tour’. The group was divided at the beginning and as a loyal follower to my king I stood by his side during the argument as the other lowly peasants went with the popular choice and stood beside the Prince of Wales. The argument got very heated and it ended with the prince and his wife being banished from England. There is obviously a huge amount of pride in place here as shown by the extravagant day long stories that unfold at different times throughout the day. The actors never break character and can be found walking around at different times throughout the castle and its grounds having authentic conversations from that era. I will definitely have to come back and follow the stories throughout the whole day so that I can see the entire tale unfold before my eyes and maybe even play a key role in it myself.