Editing Hampton Court Palace (section)

===King's Beasts===
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[[File:Heraldic Beasts, Hampton Court-geograph-2198779-by-Colin-Smith.jpg|thumb|The [[King's Beasts, Hampton Court Palace|King’s Beasts]], on the bridge before the Great Gatehouse]]

There are ten statues of heraldic animals, called the King's Beasts, that stand on the bridge over the moat leading to the great gatehouse. Unlike [[the Queen's Beasts]] in [[Kew Gardens]], these statues represent the ancestry of King Henry VIII and his third wife [[Jane Seymour]]. The animals are: the [[Lion (heraldry)|lion]] of [[Kingdom of England|England]], the Seymour lion, the royal [[dragon]], the black bull of [[Duke of Clarence|Clarence]], the [[Yale (mythical creature)|yale]] of [[Duke of Beaufort|Beaufort]], the white lion of [[Mortimer]], the [[White Greyhound of Richmond]], the [[House of Tudor|Tudor]] dragon, the Seymour [[Panthera|panther]], and the Seymour [[unicorn]].  The set of Queen's Beasts at the [[coronation of Queen Elizabeth II]] replaced the three Seymour items and one of the dragons by the gryphon of [[Edward III of England|Edward III]], the horse of [[House of Hanover|Hanover]], the falcon of the [[House of Plantagenet|Plantagenets]], and the unicorn of Scotland.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beautifulengland.net/photos/index.php/surrey/Hampton-Court |title=Statues of the King's Beasts |work=Beautiful England |access-date=10 November 2014}}</ref>

In 2009 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the accession to the throne of King Henry VIII, a new "Tudor Garden" was created in Chapel Court, Hampton Court, designed by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan.<ref name="Todd Longstaffe-Gowan">{{Cite web|url=https://www.tlg-landscape.co.uk/projects/public/chapel-court-hampton-court-palace/|title=Chapel Court, Hampton Court Palace : Todd Longstaffe-Gowan|website=www.tlg-landscape.co.uk}}</ref> To decorate the garden eight small wooden King's Beasts were carved and painted in bright colours,<ref name="Todd Longstaffe-Gowan"/> each sitting atop a 6-foot-high painted wooden column. The heraldic beasts, carved by [[Ben Harms]] and Ray Gonzalez of G&H Studios, include the golden lion of England, the white greyhound of Richmond, the red dragon of Wales, and the white hart of [[Richard II of England|Richard II]], all carved from English oak. The historically correct colours were researched by Patrick Baty, paint/colour consultant at Hampton Court.<ref>Patrick Baty [http://patrickbaty.co.uk/2009/03/23/the-kings-beasts/]; see images [http://patrickbaty.co.uk/2009/09/03/a-tudor-garden/]</ref> The beasts are of a different design to those on the bridge, based on period drawings in the [[College of Arms]].