On today’s episode of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast, I talked to Gareth Russell about his latest book, The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court. Among the topics we discussed are the wives of Henry VIII, the use of séances to get one’s own way, the first performances of Macbeth and Hamlet, the writing of the King James Bible, snobbery within eighteenth century chocolate production, whether Mary I was as bad as her reputation suggests, and why George III moved the monarchy to Buckingham Palace.

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