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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.
- Whitehall Palace
There was a Whitehall in the old palace of Westminster. "The...
- Whitehall Palace
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 · In 1682 government official Sir George Downing undertook the construction of a row of houses in Westminster, near Whitehall Palace. Fifty years later King George II offered one of them, then known as 5 Downing Street (renumbered in 1779), as a personal gift to Sir Robert Walpole , the first lord of the Treasury .
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 · 1899 statue of Oliver Cromwell, Westminster by Hamo Thornycroft outside the Palace of Westminster in London During the opening of the American Revolutionary War in 1776, the Connecticut State Navy commissioned a corvette named the Oliver Cromwell , as one of the first American naval vessels, before being captured in battle in 1779 ...
5 days ago · Skip the Line Westminster Abbey Tour with Diamond Jubilee Galleries – Skip the queues and dive into the history of England’s most important Gothic building, including the exclusive Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries.
