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Nonsuch Palace

Why was the Palace called Nonsuch?
12:14 Tue 31st May 2005
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jno
It means there was no other such palace in the world ('none such'), nothing like it.
12:31 Tue 31st May 2005
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thx
12:39 Tue 31st May 2005
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Octavius
Henry VIII decided (in 1538) to build a palace to rival anything Frances I of France had. It cost him �24,000 (a huge amount for the time), took 9 years and he destroyed a village called Cuddington to do it, but when it was finished it was declared that �none-such were as beautiful as this�. It is from this statement that the name Nonsuch comes.

13:35 Tue 31st May 2005
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thx sir (octavius)
13:43 Tue 31st May 2005

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