From Christian Today
By Ruth Gledhill
The first Roman Catholic service for more than 450 years is to be celebrated in the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace.
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Reuters
The Queen, Supreme
Governor of the Church of England, recorded her 2010 Christmas
broadcast in the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace
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Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Nichols will celebrate Vespers and
the Bishop of London, Dean of the Chapel Royal, will preach in Henry
VIII's chapel, built by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in the early 16th century
but
taken from Wolsey by the King and rebuilt.
Henry VIII broke with Rome and established the Church of England after Wolsey
failed to secure his
annulment from
Catherine of Aragon. Henry's third wife Jane Seymour gave birth to his only son Prince Edward at Hampton Court. His fifth wife Catherine Howard
is said to haunt the palace, where she had faced accusations of adultery. The King married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court.
The Genesis Foundation and
the Choral Foundation are
working together to make the service possible, as the first Latin Rite
of the Catholic Church to be celebrated since the 1550s at the Chapel
Royal.
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