Hampton Court Palace largest in the world . The palace's Home Park is the site of the annual Hampton Court Palace Festival and Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, chief minister to and favourite of Henry VIII, took over the site of Hampton Court Palace in 1514. It had previously been a property of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Over the following seven years, Wolsey spent lavishly (200,000 Crowns) to build the finest palace in England at Hampton Court. Today, little of Wolsey's building work remains unchanged. The first courtyard, the Base Court, ("B on plan"), was
Hampton Court Palace directed by Fred Zinnemann. It also appeared in the HBO miniseries "John Adams" (2008) where Adams was received by King George III as the first U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St James's. The palace was used in the film "To Kill a King" (2003), "" (2011) and in (2011). The palace also served as a location for the live action film of Disney's "Cinderella" (2015), directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Lily James and Richard Madden. The location was used for a performance of "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" by rock keyboardist Rick Wakeman in 2009. The concert