Magnificence: A Tale of Two Henrys - Dr Simon Thurley

By looking at their palaces, we can learn a great deal about how the first two Tudor kings lived, and still more about the society they established:
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Henry VII and Henry VIII decisively set themselves, and their residences above their magnates in a palace revolution. By 1550 the way monarchs lived, and the buildings that housed them had been set for the next century and a half.
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[@alsan623]

Thank you for sharing the lecture / presentation, very interesting.

[@MoerreNoseshine]

Very nice! Just one thought: It is hard to impossible to know which area the speaker is talking about when we online viewers cannot see where he's pointing :-)

[@davidwinans2537]

Thanks for the presentation, it is nice to learn where these terms originate. The "privy chamber" began as a bubble for the king's liberty and ended as another petri dish for bureaucratic mold to grow in.

[@gloriapower5254]

Very interesting lecture, looking forward to the autumn one to follow. Thank you!

[@LutzDerLurch]

As pointed out already, it is , sadly, hard to follow what Dr. Thurley is pointing out online, as ther eis no way to tell what he is pointing at, with either hands or a pointer.
Also, it seems the next lecture is not available online, which is a shame

[@nobbynoris]

Fascinating and compelling, but the viewer can't see what he is drawing their attention to in the pictures shown, which detracts from what is obviously a scholarly and original take on The Tudor world.

[@michaelheath5615]

Henry VII's father's property and title were the Earldom of Richmond. His uncle Jasper was Earl of Pembroke

[@michaelheath5615]

The Chateau "of" "de" "le" Ermine.

[@richardpearce1114]

Henry was presented as a boy to Henry V by his mother, surely that was in a royal palace in London. So he had in fact been to a London palace.

[@stuartfaulkner5686]

I assume you mean presented to Henry VI as a boy, as Henry V had been dead for 35 years when Henry VII was born....
If you do mean that, it did not occur in London, but on a manor on the lands of Margaret d'Anjou, Henry VI's wife

[@gloriapower5254]

Very interesting lecture, looking forward to the autumn one to follow. Thank you!