The Difference Between Palaces, Castles, and Great Houses

Laura bellas on facbook wants to know a bit about how we differentiate between different types of royal residences. A castle had a military function, generally built for defence, ar and a palace was more for comfort and luxury. But over the years, those two functions tended to merge. If if it's a residence of the royals, then it's a palace, even if it looks like quite a modest house. Still, to clome, i'm a history extora podcast. The best find for me during my time at historic royal palaces has been the rediscovery of henry the eighth's private apartments. This history extra podcast is sponsored by bombass. Go to bombast