Across

5. In the days before fridges, meat was ____ to prevent it from going off.
6. Having a lot of skill, e.g. with a musical instrument.
8. Another word for clothes
9. A particular order in which related things follow each other, e.g. of numbers or rooms.
11. A very private room, the holiest place in a church.
13. Low-ranking courtiers would only ____ ____ ____ of King Henry in his palace.
14. Fighting with a lance while riding a horse.
17. Hampton Court Palace was often full of ____ ____ wanting to see the king.
18. Provide somewhere for someone to live.
23. Women who worked in the queen's bedchamber.
24. A cloth cover hung or held above a throne or bed.
25. When people are hot, their bodies do this.

Down

1. The crime of betraying one's country.
2. Another word for apartment or flat.
3. A person who attends a royal court as a friend or adivser to the king or queen.
4. Execute someone by chopping off their head.
5. Queen Elizabeth II is a ____ ____ ; she remans politically neutral.
7. A bathroom or toilet that immediately adjoins a bedroom and forms part of the same set of rooms.
10. Someone who spies on people by watching them and listening to their conversations.
12. Lower ranking visitors to the palace used these instead of going to a toilet.
15. Things which belong to someone.
16. A government department which manages state finances.
19. Where smoke comes out; these are found on a roof.
20. Some courtiers were ____ to live at the palace and get free food.
21. A long flat-bottomed boat for carrying freight on canals and rivers.
22. Hunting with a trained falcon.