Hampton Court Palace his creation, as was the second, inner gatehouse ("C") which leads to the Clock Court ("D") (Wolsey's seal remains visible over the entrance arch of the clock tower) which contained his private rooms ("O on plan"). The Base Court contained forty-four lodgings reserved for guests, while the second court (today, Clock Court) contained the very best rooms the state apartments reserved for the King and his family. Henry VIII stayed in the state apartments as Wolsey's guest immediately after their completion in 1525. In building his palace, Wolsey was attempting to create a Renaissance cardinal's palace of a rectilinear symmetrical
Hampton Court Beauties century. Isabella Bennet, Duchess of Grafton (1667–1713), Margaret Cecil, Countess of Ranelagh (1672–1727), Carey Fraser, Countess of Peterborough (c.1658–1709), Frances Whitmore, Lady Middleton (1666–1694), Mary Scrope, later Mrs Pitt (born 1676), Diana De Vere, Duchess of St Albans (1679–1742), Lady Mary Bentinck, Countess of Essex (died 1726), Mary Compton, Countess of Dorset (1669–1691) Hampton Court Beauties The Hampton Court Beauties are a series of portraits by Sir Godfrey Kneller, commissioned by Queen Mary II of England, depicting the most glamorous ladies from the court of William III. They adorn the state rooms of King William III at Hampton Court Palace.