Hampton Court Palace plan with grand apartments on a raised piano nobile, all rendered with classical detailing. The historian Jonathan Foyle has suggested that it is likely that Wolsey had been inspired by Paolo Cortese's "De Cardinalatu", a manual for cardinals that included advice on palatial architecture, published in 1510. The architectural historian Sir John Summerson asserts that the palace shows "the essence of Wolsey—the plain English churchman who nevertheless made his sovereign the arbiter of Europe and who built and furnished Hampton Court to show foreign embassies that Henry VIII's chief minister knew how to live as graciously as any cardinal in
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