1902-1970 AD., Great Britain, Elizabeth I and Hampton Court Palace, Brass Medal.

Great Britain, Elizabeth I and Hampton Court Palace Medal, (a tourist issue?), 1903-1970 AD.(?),
Brass Medal (38 mm / 31,12 g),
Obv.: ELIZABETH . I - 1558-1603 , 3/4 bust if Elizabeth I facing half left.
Rev.: Hampton Court Palace , front viev of the palace.
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Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London; it has not been lived in by the British royal family since the 18th century. The palace is located 11.7 miles (18.8 km) south west of Charing Cross and upstream of Central London on the River Thames. It was originally built for Cardinal Wolsey, a favourite of King Henry VIII, circa 1514; in 1529, as Wolsey fell from favour, the palace was passed to the King, who enlarged it.
The following century, William III's massive rebuilding and expansion project intended to rival Versailles was begun. Work halted in 1694, leaving the palace in two distinct contrasting architectural styles, domestic Tudor and Baroque. While the palace's styles are an accident of fate, a unity exists due to the use of pink bricks and an, albeit vague, symmetrical balancing of successive low wings.
Today, the palace is open to the public, and is a major tourist attraction. The palace's Home Park is the site of the annual Hampton Court Palace Festival and Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Along with St. James's Palace, it is one of only two surviving palaces out of the many owned by Henry VIII.
King Henry died in January 1547 and was succeeded first by his son Edward VI, and then by both his daughters in turn. It was to Hampton Court that Queen Mary I (Henry's eldest daughter) retreated with King Philip II of Spain to spend her honeymoon, after their wedding at Winchester. The marriage, politically expedient rather than a love match, proved childless, and Mary was succeeded by her half-sister, Elizabeth I. It was Elizabeth who had the Eastern kitchen built; today, this is the palace's public tea room.
On the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, the Tudor period came to an end. The Queen was succeeded by her cousin-once-removed, the Scottish King, James VI, who became known in England as James I of the House of Stewart.