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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.
Extensive conservation work is taking place at the Palace of Whitehall's 17th-century Banqueting House including cleaning and repairing an original Rubens ceiling painting.
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.
The guards have protected Kings, Queens and the Royal Palaces since around 1656. The Changing of the Guard ceremony originally took place at the Palace of Whitehall, which was the King or Queen's ...