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4 days ago · The Privy Gallery. The Roman Catholic Chapel. The Holbein and King Street Gates. The Gun Platform. The Banqueting House. View of the Palace in 1695–8. Proposals for Rebuilding.
5 days ago · The ancient palace of Whitehall, if we include its precincts, was of great extent, stretching from close to where now stands Westminster Bridge nearly up to Scotland Yard.
3 days ago · In the reign of Henry VIII. the splendid palace of Whitehall, which had for ages past been an appendage to the see of York, was, on the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey, granted as a royal residence to the king, and directed to be called "the King's Palace at Westminster" for ever, because, as the Act of Parliament stated, "the old palace ...
1 day ago · Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's secret wedding at Whitehall Palace 22 August 2016. In the early morning of 25 January 1533, Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn in a secret marriage service in Whitehall Palace. Only a handful of witnesses were present: a chaplain, two members from Henry's privy chamber and one of Anne Boleyn's attendants.
1 day ago · The area around 10 Downing Street (now known as the City of Westminster) has been a centre of British government since at least the 11th century, when King Canute I built a royal palace there. In 1682 government official Sir George Downing undertook the construction of a row of houses in Westminster, near Whitehall Palace .
1 day ago · At the Whitehall conference of December 1655, he quoted from St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans 10:12–15 on the need to send Christian preachers to the Jews. The Presbyterian William Prynne , in contrast to the Congregationalist Cromwell, was strongly opposed to the latter's pro-Jewish policy.
5 days ago · When Henry VIII in 1529 began to convert Cardinal Wolsey’s York Place into the royal palace of Whitehall and to build St. James’s Palace across the fields, the City of Westminster began to take more definite shape around the court.
