Christmas Cookery & Tudor Music at Hampton Court Palace

Name: Christmas Cookery and Music at the Palace
Start: 2024-12-24
End: 2025-01-05
Location: Hampton Court Palace

Where? Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey When? 21st December 2024 to 5th January 2025 Price? Included in the cost of admission · See hrp.org Usual entry cost: Adults £28.80; Children £14.30 (5-15); Infants free entry (under-5); Family ticket £78.90 Buses: 111, 216, 411, 461, 267, 513 Bus fares Trains: Hampton Court Train fares

Get into the Christmas spirit at Hampton Court Palace with some festive Tudor music and authentic Tudor cookery.

There are some lovely little lanes and cobbled courtyards around Henry VIII's original kitchens with the background sounds of banging, barking and trundling cart wheels playing out the speakers to add a bit of atmosphere.

Carpenter's Court outside the Tudor Kitchens

Tudor kitchens — A roaring fire inside Henry VIII's Tudor Kitchens

When you enter inside you'll see long wooden tables laid out with stuffed birds, herbs and spices, pastries and pies, and the staff feeding chopped logs onto a big burning furnace of a fire. And this Christmas you'll also enjoy the sights and smells of some beef being roasted and some tasty Tudor favourites being prepared.

As you explore the rooms in the rest of the palace - like the magnificent Great Hall with its hammerbeam roof, and the Guard Chamber in King William III's Apartments - you'll hear some festive tunes being played that were popular back in Tudor times.