Hampton has more recently been featured in Terrence Malick’s The New World, Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows and Prof Stephen Hawking biopic, The Theory Of Everything. Its most famous screen ‘appearance’ is often cited as Fred Zinnemann’s 1966 A Man For All Seasons, though the Oscar-winning film used a studio recreation of the palace. George II was the last monarch to live here, and the complex is now open to the public. The plans were not fully realised and the palace remains a mixture of Baroque and Tudor. Toward the end of the 17th century, King William III commissioned Sir Christopher Wren to update the Palace in the Baroque style, to rival Versailles. Hampton Court Palace, on the River Thames southwest of London, was built in 1514 for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, but after the Cardinal fell out of favour with King Henry VIII, the king seized the palace for himself – naturally enlarging it. The bustling town square, where Jack gets distracted by Old Hamm ( Warwick Davis) and his troupe of actors and defends the honour of Princess Isabelle ( Eleanor Tomlinson), is Base Court, the first courtyard of Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey in Surrey. Jack The Giant Slayer location: the town square of ‘Cloister’: Base Court, Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey
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