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Digging Up Tudor Secrets: What Lies Beneath Hampton Court | Bbc Timestamp

Julian Richards joins a team as they start to dig within the walls of Hampton Court Palace for evidence to support the assistant curator's theory that the original palace built by Cardinal Wolsey, largely obliterated by Henry VIII, may have Italian Renaissance roots, thus making it one of the most significant buildings in English architectural history.

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