This week I loved the snow in our village and at Hampton Court Palace. It was extra special to see my favourite Palace covered with snow. I was enchanted!

“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?” J. B. Priestley

Photography: Ronel van Zyl

Hampton Court Palace is one of the royal palaces in London that borders the River Thames. Cardinal Wolsey, one of King Henry VIII’s favourites (but who was later charged with treason), started the building of the palace in 1515. After Wolsey’s fall from grace, the king took the palace for himself and later enlarged it. Hampton Court and the St. James Palace are the only two palaces by Henry VIII that still exist. King George II was the last monarch who inhabited the palace.

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