In addition, London Buses routes 111, 216, 411 and R68 stop outside the palace gates. Today, the palace is open to the public and a major tourist attraction, easily reached by train from Waterloo station in central London and served by Hampton Court railway station in East Molesey, in Transport for London's Zone 6. King George II was the last monarch to reside in the palace. While the palace's styles are an accident of fate, a unity exists due to the use of pink bricks and a symmetrical, if vague, balancing of successive low wings. His work ceased in 1694, leaving the palace in two distinct contrasting architectural styles, domestic Tudor and Baroque. In the following century, King William III's massive rebuilding and expansion work, which was intended to rival the Palace of Versailles, destroyed much of the Tudor palace. The palace is currently in the possession of King Charles III and the Crown. Along with St James' Palace, it is one of only two surviving palaces out of the many the king owned. The palace went on to become one of Henry's most favoured residences soon after acquiring the property, he arranged for it to be enlarged so that it might more easily accommodate his sizeable retinue of courtiers.

In 1529, as Wolsey fell from favour, the cardinal gave the palace to the king to check his disgrace.

The building of the palace began in 1514 for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the chief minister of Henry VIII.

Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, 12 miles (19 kilometres) southwest and upstream of central London on the River Thames.

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