This is my contribution to the A to Z Blogging Challenge, in which I’m focusing on overseas destinations I’ve visited.
Q is for Queen’s and King’s Houses (Hampton Court, Windsor, and Buckingham Palace)
Today’s post is going to be short–it took me forever to think of what I would do for Q, and I don’t have many photos…plus I’ve been working long hours and I’m tired. I give you Queen’s and King’s houses!
Hampton Court Palace, England (1990)
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| Mike getting lost in the maze? |
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| By the River Thames |
I wouldn’t want to run into a ghost myself, but I’m slightly intrigued by them. Hampton Court Palace is supposedly haunted–no surprise after the way Henry VIII treated his poor wives! According to Wikipedia, “The ghost of Catherine Howard is said to haunt The Haunted Gallery. Staff have reported hearing screaming and crying and even thumping on the chapel doors, visitors have also claimed to have had unpleasant encounters. Jane Seymour, Henry VIII‘s third wife and mother of Edward VI has also been seen silently walking towards her son’s room. Other ghosts include Henry VIII himself and a woman named Dame Sybil Penn, Edward VI’s nurse. She died of smallpox in 1562 and her grave was damaged by a storm in the early 19th century. Staff have repeatedly complained of hearing the sounds of an old woman muttering and the sound of a spinning wheel. Workman were eventually called in to investigate and discovered a concealed room containing an old spinning wheel, well worn with constant use.”
We didn’t go inside but just wandered around the grounds.
Windsor, England (early 1990s)
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| One of the towers |
Buckingham Palace, England (various times)
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| I could look at these horse guards all day–they are fascinating! Looking forward to the day when there will be more women! |
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| Wouldn’t you love to walk up that staircase? |
You probably didn’t believe me when I said my post would be short today! When I commented on Facebook how I was looking forward to this month being over, a friend said “P is for pooped!”
Visit here to read my A-P posts. Tomorrow, it’s back to India and England.
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