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Nonsuch Palace

/ ˈnʌnˌsʌtʃ /

noun

  1. a former royal palace in Cuddington in London: built in 1538 for Henry VIII; later visited by Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Charles II; demolished (1682–1702)

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The painting by Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel is said to be the earliest depiction of Henry VIII's Nonsuch Palace in Surrey.

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Nonsuch Palace was painted by the Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel in 1568.

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Nonsuch Palace - named because no other palace could equal it - was built in 1538 for the Tudor king to celebrate the birth of his first legitimate son and mark his 30th year on the throne,

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The pub in Worcester Park where Delahunty found them, is not far from Hampton Court and the site of the Nonsuch Palace, which bristled with heraldic beasts.

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Few, perhaps, have seen it, and there can be little to see, by all accounts, but what remains is the ruin of Nonsuch Palace—just the foundations of the banquet hall; that is all that remains of the palace which was to be incomparable, like no palace a king ever built before, the royalest building in Christendom.

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