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"The history of Whitehall Palace is fascinating. Many people don't realise it was once the largest royal residence for the Tudor and Stuart courts and many significant historical events happened there ...

If you're on the hunt for corridors of power, Westminster was as fruitful a place to look in Tudor times as it is today. The sprawling Whitehall Palace occupied much of the land downriver of ...

Queen Anne, who followed William in 1702, promised to put aside £100,000 for six years to fund the rebuilding of Whitehall Palace. Her endeavours, too, came to nothing. So the wreckage was swept ...

The chapel is the main surviving part of a Tudor palace built by Henry VIII ... royal residence after the fire of 1698 destroyed Whitehall Palace. Queen Mary, Henry VIII's daughter died here ...

But the revival of interest in Tudor-era London ... Thames was lined with the turrets of royal residences, from the Palace of Whitehall - whose only remaining section, the Banqueting House ...