The Masque of Callisto: Queen Mary, Queen Anne, Arabella Hunt and...
In 1675, two future queens performed in one of the most glittering and glamorous ...
Category: Banqueting House
“The most magnificent Triumph…on the Thames”
The Aqua Triumphalis of Catherine of Braganza © Historic Royal ...
The wine-fuelled destruction of Charles II’s sundial
The grand pyramidal and multiform dial set up in the ...
Listen to the Building - Sound and Banqueting House
How does sound help us understand a Palace?
The Banqueting House, Whitehall, was the Stuart ...
The Great Fire, the ‘fanatics’, and the late Lord Protector
The seventeenth century was a very bloody century indeed. And yet the Great Fire ...
A Secret Tudor Wedding
In the early ...
Whitehall and a most delicate protest
Today Whitehall ...
“Executed in the open street before Whitehall”
King Charles I by Sir Anthony van Dyck. Royal Collection ...
Anne Boleyn’s Favourite Palace
On 1 June 1533 Anne Boleyn was crowned queen at Westminster Abbey following three ...