Whether it’s Hever Castle (the ancestral home of the Boleyns); Westminster Abbey (the resting place of Elizabeth I); or Hampton Court Palace (once the property of Cardinal Wolsey), you will be sure to hear the accents of both British and international visitors alike.

Perhaps the most notable of these are Thornbury Castle (near Bristol) and Littlecote House in Berkshire. Moreover, the nearby 13th century Bear Hotel was formerly the property of the King and later his “surviving” wives Anne of Cleves and Katherine Parr.

Similarly, Fawsley Hall in Northamptonshire features the 1575 Suite (the ‘Queenes Chamber’) in which England’s greatest monarch slept on her last visit to the house.

Other inns associated with the Virgin Queen include the Spread Eagle in Midhurst, West Sussex; The Swan at Alton in Hampshire; and Boringdon Hall near Plymouth, Devon. Stay at Butley Priory in Suffolk and you’ll be where Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor stayed in 1527 shortly after their marriage. Then there’s the Catherine of Aragon suite in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, whose connections to Henry’s first wife are obvious. Or you could always stay at the Old Hall in Buxton, Derbyshire, where Mary Queen of Scots spent time under house arrest.