By looking at their palaces, we can learn a great deal about how the first two Tudor kings lived, and still more about the society they established:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/magnificence-a-tale-of-two-henrys

Henry VII and Henry VIII decisively set themselves, and their residences above their magnates in a palace revolution. By 1550 the way monarchs lived, and the buildings that housed them had been set for the next century and a half.

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