"Thereshall be justice in this land!" Henry 11 waves his sword over a crowd of giggling children and their parents in the brightly decorated king's hall of Dover Castle. In August the castle keep reopened after a £2.5m re-creation of the interior financed by English Heritage (eh), a conservation quango, and Sea Change, a seaside-regeneration project. The aim was to show the keep as it might have looked in the 12th century, bright-blue furniture contrasting with the deep red of an 180-foot tapestry depicting the Norman conquest. The real Henry 11 built it to wow pilgrims on their way to Canterbury.
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