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Henry VIII Never Looked This Good

Who's excited about Showtime's new series "The Tudors?" Sure, they may have picked a strange subject for their sexed-up take on British history -- most people know King Henry VIII for being enormously fat and getting the English church to co-sponsor his womanizing ways. (He also had syphilis. Score!) But this series focuses on a younger, hotter Henry VIII -- Jonathan Rhys Meyers hot, in fact.

You can watch "The Tudors" free on this Showtime site, but to really see some Tudor madness you'd have to travel to one of Henry's 50-plus palaces, including one of the more famous, Hampton Court Palace, better known as the site where James I would later commission the King James Bible. The famous maze which adjoins the main house wasn't there in its current form when ol' Hank brought his women there, but it's a great place to get lost for a day and still be close to London (just 35 minutes by train from Waterloo station).

Related Stories:
· Hampton Court Palace [Official Site]
· The Tudors on Showtime [Official Site]