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A remarkable marriage of medieval grandeur and twentieth-century glamour, Eltham Palace in southeast London combines the surviving great hall of a royal residence with one of the finest Art Deco interiors in Britain. The site began as a medieval manor that became a favoured royal palace, where kings held court and the young Henry the Eighth spent part of his childhood, and its magnificent great hall, built in the fifteenth century with a splendid hammerbeam roof, ranks among the largest of its k...