Hampton Court Part 1 Jedward's Big Adventure

# Come with us There is so much to discover

# Crazy adventure With me and my brother

# We'll dig up things that will freak you out

# Cos this is Jedward's Big Adventure

# We'll be your tour guides There's so much to do

# There is a whole planet out there And it's just for you

# You never know what you'll find # It'll mess with your mind

# Cos it's a hair-raising Trailblazing, totally wild, amazing

# Jedward's big adventure! #

Welcome to a very special bumper edition of Jedward's Big Adventure.

Today's location is so crammed full of facts,

we've decided not to do one, but two episodes from here.

Yes, it's going to be double trouble

from the world-famous Hampton Court Palace.

-Ah!

-It's...

-The Royal...Royal Highness.

-Your Royal Royalness.

Pleasure to meet you.

And it's our mission! Wait, hold on a sec, can you give us a peace sign?

Can you give us a royal wave? Can you give us a rock sign?

-Can you get on with it?

-All right, that's enough. OK, OK.

Let's look at the mission, Edward. All right.

"Dear Jedward. You will each have to give a group of tourists

-"a guided tour of Hampton Court Palace."

-Awesome!

You'll be telling them

all about the history of this incredible royal palace.

Hey, John, look.

"Whoever gives the best tour will get to enjoy a speedy Segway ride."

I have to win, I love Segway!

"But whoever loses will have to clear out the palace bins."

-Oh!

-Gross!

-Rubbish!

I think we're going to need some help, what do you think?

We totally need some help.

-Help!

-Help!

-Somebody help us!

Help! Can anybody help us?

I am competitive,

so I know there will be some serious competitiveness going on.

And I want to win!

And joining Stacey on this bumper big adventure is...

History, sure. Dates, figures, names...

Just don't test me.

Well, obviously he didn't read his contract.

It's so great to have you guys here.

So, what do you guys know about Hampton Court Palace?

We don't know anything about it.

Yeah, I don't think I'd know if I was literally stood outside it.

Edward, it seems like they know nothing about Hampton Court at all.

-You guys relax while we get the facts. Come on, John.

-Let's go!

John and Edward will need all the help they can get

because in our episode, the boys will be guiding the tourists

around the beautiful Hampton Court, a place they know nothing about.

John will be helped by Stacey while Edward will be with Ben.

Each team will be given three stories

which the tourists will be tested on

to find out who the best tour guides are.

What is that?

In fact, there is so much history in Hampton Court,

the boys will also be facing some surprise bonus challenges.

Stay tuned for those.

It's time for the boys to meet their first expert.

Meet Annabel. All right.

When it comes to Hampton Court, this girl is a fountain of knowledge.

Let's hope Jedward are thirsty for facts.

-HE BURPS

-Please!

Get out of here!

This place is totally J-epic!

Yeah, the royal family must love living here.

Um, not so much. Not for over 200 years, in fact.

-That means we can move in!

-We'd totally rock this place.

Yeah, we'd be all over this!

I'm sure you would be, but over its 500 years of history,

there have been some pretty important people living there.

VIP...

Hampton Court Palace is one of the most famous buildings

in Britain, but it is really two palaces -

a 16th century Tudor palace built for Cardinal Woolsey and Henry VIII

and a late 17th century baroque palace

built for William III and Mary II.

The palace has over 1,100 rooms.

And together, the palace and gardens cover about 60 acres.

That's about the same as 33 football pitches.

This place is massive! Can we go inside?

Annabel, what is going on? What is this place?

Well, you are actually in the first courtyard,

the base court of Cardinal Woolsey's palace.

And this is where he would meet and greet all the visitors.

-And what is this here?

-This is a fountain.

As you might expect, fountains run with water most of the time.

But on special occasions,

-this one could be made to run with red and white wine.

-Wine?

-What?

-Oh, yeah.

-That's amazing!

A wine fountain where anyone can have as much as they want,

-even if it is not good for them.

-Do you ever put chocolate milk in here?

That is an interesting thought.

Back then, they had really cool outfits,

so would wine stain their outfits? What would they do with a stain?

Like, they didn't have those special detergents to get rid of the stains.

Urine is very good for getting stains out,

so you might want to try that.

What? Too much information, Annabel, OK? Too much information.

I would...

That's, like, not cleaning your top, that's, like, going backwards

-and making it even dirtier.

-That's like staining it even more.

-Yuck!

-You're going down.

Edward, you're going to go down like the sunrise.

Did he just say, "You're going down like the sunrise?"

You're going to go down like the sunrise.

Yes, he actually did.

Today, there is no sunrise, it's cloudy.

Enough weather talk, Jedward, please.

What are you doing?

I was helping this guy push against the wall.

A conga!

Come on, boys, it's time to push forward and learn some more facts.

Wow!

Welcome to the Great Hall.

This place is so beautiful, so much detail. Isn't it, Edward?

-It's delightful.

-It's wonderful, lovable, powerful.

-Grateful.

-What can you tell us about this place?

When the king is in the mood to celebrate, this was the party house.

Parties!

Hampton Court was King Henry VIII's party house,

used for relaxation, sport,

hunting and massive feasts.

The deer around Hampton Court today are the direct descendants

of the deer that Henry VIII hunted in Tudor times.

These days, we think of him as a fat, ferocious king,

but he wasn't always that way.

He was once tall, charming and very handsome.

But in 1536,

a jousting accident knocked him unconscious for two hours.

He was never the same again.

Annabel, what did Henry VIII wear?

A lot of layers. He was a slimmer man when he was younger,

but the fashion became to have huge-looking clothes - big,

puffy sleeves almost as wide as you were tall.

So he had layer upon layer of rich,

rich fabrics that build up to make him look bigger than he was.

But you have got to have nice tights on

because you want to show off a good, manly calf.

-They used to wear tights?

-They did.

Yeah! I've got mine on now.

Annabel, did Henry VIII have a big entourage?

He had a huge one.

He was the king. He was the one everyone wanted to be around.

He was the celebrity of the day. And he'd have 600 people here

on a regular basis with him.

Annabel, we've learned a lot of cool facts, but I want to know one thing.

-Can we sit in those thrones?

-Come on!

-Help yourselves.

-Yay!

Wow!

-I am John.

-And I am Edward.

And together we are... BOTH: Jedward I.

Cheers. Both: Ha, ha, ha, ha.

-Wow, what a lucky statue.

-Yeah, she looks pleased.

Now Jedward have got the first two stories for the tour

under their belts, it's time for an exciting new twist.

As this is a special two-part episode at Hampton Court, the boys

are about to be given the chance to win extra points for their team.

Get ready for your first bonus challenge!

-John, what is going on?

-I don't know, Edward.

What's this? Another mission?

"Jedward, as part of your mission at Hampton Court Palace,

"you must compete in the first of four bonus challenges."

"In your teams, you will face off in a game of real tennis with

"Tudor rules and costumes.

"The winner of each bonus challenge will receive five points

"for the team."

Edward, what is real tennis?

John, I think we need to ask an expert.

And we've got a right ace for you. Meet Nick.

When it comes to real tennis, he loves to serve up the facts.

-Wow! Look at these outfits, Edward!

-Look at your hat!

These Tudor outfits are, like, the best.

Look at my baggy pants. Yeah!

And look at our team members.

What do you guys think of your Tudor outfits?

-Marvellous!

-I knew I'd look great in tights.

How am I going to play tennis like this?

I've never had so much space in my life,

there is room to do whatever, like...

Hi, there, guys, you're looking good.

I'm Nick, the head professional.

-Nick, what is this?

-This is real tennis.

Real tennis, we are the real Jedward.

What do you mean by real tennis? What does that mean?

It's like lawn tennis, but it's a bit harder.

Henry VIII built the first indoor tennis court

at Hampton Court Palace.

Here, they played real tennis, the original indoor racquet sport

that gave us tennis as we know it today.

Very little about the rules of real tennis has changed

since Tudor times.

In the 1500s, the balls were made of leather filled with human hair.

Today, the balls are made from compressed wine corks, which can

take out an opponent with a single hit because they are very hard.

Nick, this game sounds awesome.

There's a lot of angles, surfaces that the ball can bounce off.

You can just keep whacking it and it bounces everywhere,

-like a ping pong.

-As long as it goes over the net, everything's in play.

-It gets fast and it's fun.

-Let's do this, Stacey!

Yeah!

And here we are at centre court, Hampton Court,

with a real match on our hands.

It's Team John versus Team Edward

in a bonus challenge match for five precious points.

Let's do this!

Ben to serve.

-It's yours, John, come on.

-Come on, Edward!

That's a beautiful shot from young Edward for the point.

Yes!

15-0.

Come on, Edward!

Remember, unlike tennis as we know it,

in real Tudor tennis you can bounce the ball off the walls.

Good Edward!

-It's a jolly good shot!

-Yes! Woo-hoo!

15-15, and Stacey is celebrating.

It's making a right racket.

See what I did there?

-Ben to serve.

-Nice serve.

Come on, John.

Oh, I say! Nothing for a double hit in this game.

30-15.

Boo!

Edward to serve.

It's yours, Stacey. Go!

Oh, she missed it.

40-15.

Miss Solomon to serve.

Yeah, Stacey Solomon! Woo!

And that paid dividends. There's no way Ben could return.

40-30, which means it's match point. Stacey to serve.

Can she stop Team Edward winning the game?

Pressure, the pressure.

Yes!

Get it, John! No!

Oh, they've done it!

And that's game and match.

Absolutely first class from Team Edward.

No way!

We won the first challenge!

Yeah, of course we did. Five points to us!

Well, that's it. Bonus game, set and match.

There's three more challenges to come,

but for now, the points go to Team Edward.

Don't worry, we're going to beat them next time.

NARRATOR LAUGHS

Well, that was exciting.

Those bonus points will count towards

the score at the end of the tour, so Edward has got a precious lead...

for now.

# I'm still Jedward from the block. #

Let's get back to the facts.

And here to serve up our next course of fact is

our Tudor food expert, Marc.

Cheer up, Marc. There you go.

-Cool!

-Hi, boys.

Welcome to Henry VIII's kitchen.

This fireplace is massive!

This kitchen is ginormous!

It has to be, the Tudors loved their food, none more so than Henry VIII.

Yeah, but how much can one guy eat?

It's not just one guy, this place was full of people.

Hundreds of people ate their dinner here.

Henry VIII loved his food

and extended the kitchens at Hampton Court

so they could feed up to 600 people twice a day at court.

The kitchens were made up of around 55 rooms

and staffed by more than 200 people.

Freshly roasted meat was always eaten at the royal court

as an expression of the king's wealth.

While ordinary folk rarely saw fresh meat,

the rich could afford to roast it all day before an open fire

and even pay a spit boy to keep it turning.

So, Marc, what else can you tell us about these enormous kitchens?

-This room was designed just to roast.

-What does roasting involve?

Nowadays, we say, "I'm going to have a roast chicken,"

and we stick it in the oven. That's not quite right.

That is baked. Roasting has to have a fire on one side.

And a spit turner. What's your name?

-Robert.

-How long has Robert been spinning this for?

Three hours now, and that is about average.

That's, like, the length of a movie.

He is not just turning that handle,

he is actually watching it to make sure it roasts perfectly.

It is so hot in here, I feel like I'm getting cooked

and roasted, like, seriously.

-Who wants to become a fully trained spit turner?

-I want to!

You've got to think about the numbers here.

You're stood in a huge fireplace,

we've only got a little bit of meat today.

How much do they eat across a year in the Tudor court?

They are going through over 8,000 sheep,

they are drinking more than 600,000 gallons of beer.

This place is massive.

I'm just going to cut you a slice of meat

that was cooked on the same fireplace

that cooked the food for Henry VIII.

That looks amazing!

-It's going to be lovely.

-Give me some.

Be careful, remember it's been on the...

on the spit for rather a long time.

-Mm!

-It's so tasty.

I'm living the good life now.

Well, that is the kitchens.

Let's hope they've digested some of those facts.

The boys are halfway through their tour of Hampton Court.

So far, they have found out about the history the palace,

a sporty king and some juicy facts from the kitchen.

In the next episode, they'll be going head-to-head

and each giving a tour of their own, with the loser facing

a rubbish forfeit, so they'd better listen carefully.

Right, more facts, please, boys. And it's Annabel again.

She has an old wives' tale to tell, quite literally.

Wow!

Let's hope they don't lose their heads with the facts.

So, Henry VIII was a famously cruel king.

And he was, like, really scary.

Yeah, but he's even more famous for cutting off the heads of his wives.

Wives?

One of the most famous things about King Henry VIII is that he

had six wives,

many of whom came to a grisly end.

There is a well-known rhyme to help people remember what happened

to them -

divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.

And that refers to... Catherine of Aragon, divorced.

Anne Boleyn, beheaded.

Jane Seymour, died.

Anne of Cleves, divorced.

Catherine Howard, beheaded.

Catherine Parr, survived.

-Yee-haw!

-Bleh!

Wow, that is like a basketball team of wives.

-Why did he have so much wives?

-He must definitely have been a problem.

You just don't have six wives...

There's something definitely wrong with him.

He had a good reason. What a king needs is a son and heir.

Daughters, no good, he had two of them.

He wanted a son, but he had to wait till his third wife,

Jane Seymour, before he got one.

And then she died, which was very sad, but at least he had a son

and heir to make sure there was always going to be a Tudor king.

And what was the son's name?

-His son was called Prince Edward.

-That's my name!

Do you think Edward would have been a good prince back then, a good king?

-He was really intelligent.

-I'm talking about this Edward here.

-Intelligent, yeah.

-Yeah, really intelligent.

He grew up to be just like Henry VIII

-and then died young, I'm afraid.

-Ah!

Annabel, what can you tell us about this amazing, cool garden?

When you need six wives, you have to do a lot of wooing,

and where better than to come and do that than the gardens down here?

What, do you mean wooing like... Woo, woo! Or... Wooooooo!

Loads of flirting. He wrote poetry, he wrote music.

He could serenade his ladies.

Why did he serenade them when he could just give them a hug?

Jed hug.

Oh, isn't that nice?

Are you serenaded, Annabel?

-I'd like to be serenaded.

-# Annabel, we love you. #

Annabel, your hair is like the wind.

Your red jacket is as red as a rose and your shoes are as...

Yes?

Awesome and black. Your red jacket matches my red trousers.

Oh, dear!

-Annabel, will you marry me?

-Tempting.

-Sorry, John, Annabel is engaged.

Better luck next time, John.

Annabel, do you think, like, he could have gone forever having wives?

He'd have to die eventually.

How would Henry VIII fit into one of those tiny coffins?

With great difficulty. It is said that his coffin actually exploded

before it could be buried.

All of the gases inside the body

made him blow up even more than he was

and it burst the sides of the coffin.

That wasn't a funeral, that was more like an explosion.

That was more like a ginormous whoopee cushion going... Bfff!

We learned a really, really cool new song. It goes like this.

-Divorced.

-Beheaded.

-Died.

-Divorced.

-Beheaded.

-Durvived.

Durvived? It's survived, Edward, you're making mistakes.

I know my facts. I know I am the next Albert Einstein.

You don't even know how to turn on Jedcam, I turned this on.

Oh, no.

Next on the menu, another chance for the boys

to win some tasty bonus points for their team.

That's right, it's another...

-It's our mission, check it out!

-Open it!

"Dear Jedward. It is time for your second bonus challenge

"that you must complete

"as part of your mission at Hampton Court Palace."

Awesome! Look...

"Jedward must compete to see who can make the tastiest chocolate."

Chocolicious!

"Once again, the winner of the bonus challenge will receive

"five extra bonus points for their team."

I need those five points, Edward.

No, I need those points, John.

Edward, I'm going to chocolate all over your parade.

And to show the boys how to make this delectable delight,

Marc's back, and he is choc-full of facts.

-So, Marc, what are we doing here?

-See that palace behind you?

Chocolate played an important part in there,

so important, they even had their own chocolate kitchen for the king.

Mmm, chocolate!

Hampton Court Palace was one of the first palaces in England

where chocolate was regularly served.

King William III liked a drink of chocolate at night-time

after a lively evening of drinking and gambling.

Chocolate was a new thing in Britain back then

and it confused the physicians, as they were not really sure

if it was good for you or very, very bad for you.

-Delicious!

-That's how chocolate starts off.

-It looks like coffee beans.

-It is a bean.

-Oh, it smells.

It doesn't smell too good till you've roasted it.

-There is the roasted chocolate.

-Oh, yeah, it smells of chocolate.

To the raw chocolate, that's in here,

take a tiny little piece and try it.

And it does not taste as you'd think.

-Ew!

-Exactly, it tastes horrible!

What's wrong with it? What's wrong?

It tastes like the most darkest chocolate I've ever had in my life.

Right.

Bleh! It just gets worser and worser.

We're going to do it the same way they did in the king's kitchen.

They didn't make chocolate bars, they made a chocolate drink.

Was that chocolate drink called hot chocolate?

Yes. I want you to put water in a pan.

As much chocolate as you want.

As much sugar as you think and then it is up to you how you spice it.

You have cinnamon sticks, galangal, a bit like a ginger,

-and I have a little bit of pepper here.

-Yep.

I've got to try this, so it's got to be nice.

Remember, you shouldn't do this at home if you haven't got an adult

because chocolate is really hot when it's melted.

It will burn you a lot. Ready? Three, two, one... Go!

What do I do?

Pretend you are a chocolate shop, like,

"Oh, the chocolate, put it in here."

-Chocolate, water.

-Water, water.

OK.

Tell me when you want some heat under there.

Turn the heat on, let's go.

Yeah, that would help you, boys. Oh, dear.

Whatever happened to just easy chocolate powder,

microwave, ka-boom?

Whatever happened? Another 300 years to wait.

That's what happened.

Maybe a little bit of cinnamon here to add a bit spice to your life.

-Excess sugar right now.

-A little bit of sugar going into John's...

Or maybe a whole bowlful.

You're going down, Edward!

John, I think you need some cinnamon.

Oh, dirty tactics, Edward! John was choco-late on the uptake there.

A chef needs to try what he's cooking. How are you doing?

-Delicious.

-Mine is awesome.

Really?

Edward, I'm definitely getting that five points,

my chocolate is going to melt all over your chocolate dreams.

John, I have a secret ingredient, it's called winning.

All right, whisks and spoons down.

Well, that's it, time's up.

Remember, whoever has made the tastiest chocolate walks away

with a belly full of bonus points.

This one first.

Now, this is a mixture of infusions of cinnamon

and hot chocolate by moi.

Mm. You can taste the chocolate. It's not bitter.

But I'm not getting an awful lot of spice.

This is the winner. This is the chocolate of the future.

Sweeter. A little bit of spice. Just a lot richer.

I think...

-this one.

-Yeah! Woo!

Well done, John.

Those points will go toward your total in tomorrow's tour.

I may have lost, but I got a moustache, and it's chocolate. Mm!

Anyway, with John now on five points from the chocolate challenge

and Edward on five points from the tennis challenge,

it's neck-and-neck so far at Hampton Court.

Once upon a time, John and Edward were here in Hampton Court Palace.

Our next story is a spooky one.

Let's hope the boys will enter into the spirit of things.

GHOSTLY LAUGH

-Annabel, why are we in a corridor?

-Yeah.

What is so special about this part of the palace?

This isn't just a corridor, this is a particularly famous corridor

because it has a rather spine-tingling feel to it.

-It is known as the Haunted Gallery.

-Haunted?!

It is haunted by one particularly famous ghost, Henry's fifth wife,

Catherine Howard.

A ghost?!

In November, 1541, Catherine Howard, fifth wife of King Henry VIII,

was charged with cheating on her husband

and placed under house arrest.

It is claimed that she broke free from her guards

and ran down the corridor to plead with King Henry for her life.

But the guards dragged her back to her room.

Catherine was later executed at the Tower of London.

It is said that a female form dressed in white has been seen

floating down the Haunted Gallery,

but just as she reaches the chapel, it hurries back,

shrieking wildly with a ghastly look of despair.

-What a horrible story.

-Edward, I ain't afraid of no ghosts.

OK, John. Let's film some Jedcam.

John, I think it's on night vision.

Aah! It's a ghost!

John, what are you talking about? Come on.

There was a ghost. A ghost was right there. I'm serious, there is a ghost.

My name is John. I just saw a ghost. And no-one believes me.

John, that is enough Jedcam for today. Come on.

Edward, I know what I saw, but let's get out of here.

Oh, Jedward, brave as they are shy.

Let's just hope that didn't scare the facts out of them.

The day is nearly over and there is still time to get one more story.

Wow, John, look.

The bush looks like my hair.

The boys are off to find out

all about Hampton Court's

famous gardens.

Flower power, baby!

Wow, OK. Welcome back.

Now I am going to tell you about something that is

nearly as famous as the palace itself.

-Any guesses?

-Lady Gaga?

-No, the spectacular garden.

-The garden?

William III and Mary II designed the gardens at Hampton Court.

In the early 18th century, the Privy Garden was complete.

But sadly, William died before it was finished.

Famous features of the garden are the world's largest vine,

planted by the gardener Capability Brown,

and Hampton Court's amazing maze, planted in 1686 by Charles II.

It takes most people around 20 minutes to find their way out of it.

-That's amazing!

-What else can you tell us?

I can tell you that these gardens were designed to be

seen from upstairs, inside the palace.

Do you think they were made for aliens,

aliens looking down at Earth going,

"Oh, that's a nice garden, I think I might land my spaceship there?"

Oh, poor Annabel.

Maybe. These gardens, of course, were designed for William,

and designed to be seen from his state rooms.

But William was a kind of short king, so when he wanted to look

across the gardens, he wanted to be able to see the Thames at the end.

All the plants were taken out. The gardeners, by hand,

-had to dig out the ground level.

-What?!

-And then replant it.

So, he's really short and he wanted

to dig out the whole entire ground just so he can see the river.

Like, a squirrel might have been here, like, a year earlier

and then come back and then, like, "Whoa!

"Where's the nuts? Where's the trees?

"I didn't expect this garden."

Yeah, it's a big worry, Edward.

It's very Grime living here.

-Very symmetrical.

-Everything is, like, twins.

There's John, there's Edward, there's John, there's Edward.

Do you think he made these hills to roll down?

I would like to think he did.

Every time we see a hill, we've got to roll down it.

After you, I think.

One, two, three.

Boys, get off the floor!

It's time to make like a tree and leaf!

As I've heard on the grapevine,

Annabel has something else to show you.

I'm going to introduce you to Kaylee here.

And she will tell you all about the grapevine.

-Hey, Kaylee.

-Hi.

Kaylee, what is so special about this grapevine?

It is the oldest and longest in the world,

-and it holds the Guinness World Record.

-Guinness World Record?!

-It's 250 years old.

-That's really old.

-Can we have a grape?

-You can.

BOTH: Yeah!

Cheers. Grape.

John, I didn't know grapes came from a grapevine,

I thought they came from the ground.

What?

That was today's last story,

but we've just got time to squeeze in another little surprise.

It's our third bonus challenge!

So, boys, you can't come to Hampton Court

without seeing the maze.

The Hampton Court maze is probably the most famous maze in the world.

It was designed as a form of courtly entertainment.

Covering a third of an acre,

it is trapezoid in shape

and is the UK's oldest surviving hedge maze.

The maze consists of just under a kilometre of winding paths

surrounded by towering, two-metre yew tree walls.

It is a multicursal or puzzle maze and is known for confusing

and intriguing visitors with its many twists, turns and dead ends.

Wow, oh, wow! It's our mission.

"Dear Jedward.

"It's time for another bonus challenge that you must complete

"as part of your mission at Hampton Court Palace.

"You and your team will compete to see which team can reach

"the centre of the maze and be the first to raise their team flag."

-Edward, you're going down.

-Whatever, John.

"Once again, the winner of the bonus challenge will receive

"five extra points for their team. Good luck."

Let's do it.

Now, we are not going to let Jedward into the maze on their own,

they'd probably never come out again.

Send in the celebrities!

-Ready!

-Set!

-ALL: Go!

And they're off!

-Which way do we go?

-We have to get there first, go faster!

Where is the centre?

And, as they try to find their way out

to win those vital five points... Alas, that's all we have time for

for this episode. Don't miss part two!

Are you a good gardener? Can we cut our way through?

Oh, no, you're joking!

Go, Stacey!

Next time, on Jedward's Big Adventure:

-Where should we go, that way or that way?

-That way. No...

Find out who will win the challenge and secure the bonus points.

-Hello!

-Hello!

And will we ever see Jedward and the celebrities again?

We should have brought some breadcrumbs or string.

Don't miss it!

THEY YELL