
Royal residences: everything you wanted to know
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The Palace of None Such
It's true that henry the eighth built saint james's palace for anne bolyn. It's harder to say whether he built it for her, because by then jane seymour was his queen. The flooring in royal residences during the tudor times would have been brightly painted. rush matting was very popular, and features in quite a few of the paintings from the tudors.
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