Kew

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Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester ( 1460–1526) was granted lands at Kew in 1517. When he died in 1526 he left his Kew estates to his third wife, Eleanor, with the remainder to his son George. In 1538, Sir George Somerset sold the house for £200 to Thomas Cromwell ( 1485–1540), who resold it for the same amount to Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk ( 1484–1545). Brandon had probably already inhabited Kew during the life of his wife Mary Tudor (1496–1533), daughter of Henry VII and widow of the French king Louis XII. According to John Leland's Cygnea Cantio ("Swan Song"), she stayed in Kew (which he refers to as "Cheva") for a time after her return to England. One of Henry VIII's…