King Henry VIII had a tennis court at Hampton Court, his palace on the River Thames, not very far from London.
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King Henry VIII had a tennis court at Hampton Court, his palace on the River Thames, not very far from London.
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We studied about King Henry VIII in our history class today.
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The royal who wasn’t supposed to become queen at all, sat on the throne for 70 years following the death in 1952 of her father, George VI, who himself assumed the throne only because of the abdication by his brother, King Edward VIII in 1936.
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