Whitehall Palace, the seat of the Tudor and Stuart monarchies and site of many of their most notorious antics, was grand indeed—until it burned mostly to the ground in 1698.

London's lost royal palace Whitehall is destroyed, but the remnants remain. A look at the lost palace of Whitehall destroyed by fire in 1698, and the sole surviving building from the complex.

Sheppard, Edgar; Whitehall. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

The now-lost palace was the backdrop to many grand banquets, tournaments, and ceremonies. Henry VIII even married two of his wives at Whitehall Palace.

Londonist Staff Travel Back To The Lost Palace Of Whitehall. It was the largest palace in Europe — eclipsing even the Vatican and Versailles — until it burned almost to a cinder in 1698.

The lost palace of Whitehall Dan explores a computer generated model of the magnificent lost palace of Whitehall - the largest palace in Europe. Built by Henry VIII, it was destroyed by fire in 1698.