The wine-fuelled destruction of Charles II’s sundial
The grand pyramidal and multiform dial set up in the ...
Category: Banqueting House
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 ...
Easter Traditions: The Royal Maundy at Banqueting House
Dating all the way back to King John in the 13th century is the ...
A little bit of Britain in Connecticut...
For the last two years, the curators at Historic Royal Palaces have been working ...