Festooned with Mystery: Wall Paintings at the Banqueting House
An investigation into some mysterious mural paintings in the Banqueting House took place this ...
Category: Banqueting House
Outliers: The fire that destroyed Whitehall Palace
Our podcast Outliers: Stories from the Edge of History is back for season two! ...
Banqueting House: the birth of a revolutionary building
On 1 June 400 years ago, payments ...
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 ...
“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 ...