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    The Palace of Whitehall – also spelled White Hall – at Westminster was the main residence of the English monarchs from 1530 until 1698, when most of its...
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    name "Whitehall" is used as a metonym for the British civil service and government, and as the geographic name for the surrounding area. The Palace of Whitehall...
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    the site of an isolated leper hospital dedicated to Saint James the Less, the palace was secondary in importance to the Palace of Whitehall for most Tudor...
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    moved to the adjacent Palace of Whitehall, but the remainder of the palace continued to serve as the home of the Parliament of England, which had met...
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    portraits of any English or British monarch. It was created in 1536–1537 as part of the Whitehall Mural showing the Tudor dynasty at the Palace of Whitehall, Westminster...
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    Whitehall in London. The building was designed by E. Vincent Harris in 1915 and constructed between 1939 and 1959 on part of the site of the Palace of...
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    surviving component of the Palace of Whitehall, the residence of English monarchs from 1530 to 1698. The building is important in the history of English architecture...
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    Cockpit-in-Court (category Former buildings and structures in the City of Westminster)
    early theatre in London, located at the Palace of Whitehall, next to St. James's Park, now the site of 70 Whitehall, in Westminster. The structure was originally...
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    Great Scotland Yard (category Streets in the City of Westminster)
    Northumberland Avenue and Whitehall. By the 16th century, this "yard", which was then a series of open courtyards within the Palace of Whitehall, was fronted by...
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    Seymour, who had been one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting. They were married ten days later at the Palace of Whitehall, Whitehall, London, in Anne's closet...
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    503841°N 0.124894°W / 51.503841; -0.124894 The Privy Garden of the Palace of Whitehall was a large enclosed space in Westminster, London, that was originally...
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    been occupied by the Archbishops of York's London residence and had later been part of the site of Whitehall Palace. He built himself a relatively modest...
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    gave the nobles their own private landing places, as had the royal palaces of Whitehall and Westminster and further out from the City Greenwich and Hampton...
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    Holbein Gate (category Former buildings and structures in the City of Westminster)
    connect parts of the Tudor Palace of Whitehall to the east and west of the road. It was one of two substantial parts of the Palace of Whitehall to survive...
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    Horse Guards (building) (category Whitehall)
    Horse Guards originally formed the entrance to the Palace of Whitehall and later St James's Palace; for that reason it is still ceremonially defended...
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    day after Anne Boleyn's execution. They were married at the Palace of Whitehall, Whitehall, London, in the Queen's closet by Bishop Gardiner on 30 May...
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    in the Palace of Whitehall as their London residence, and Sarah Churchill was appointed one of Anne's ladies of the bedchamber. Within months of the marriage...
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    St James's Park (category Parks and open spaces in the City of Westminster)
    James the Less, now the site of St James's Palace. The area was initially enclosed for a deer park near the Palace of Whitehall for King Henry VIII in the...
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    Goose-Pie House (category Former houses in the City of Westminster)
    membership of the Kit-Cat Club, but he had no previous formal education in drawing or architectural design. After most of the Palace of Whitehall was destroyed...
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    Frederick V, a senior prince of the Holy Roman Empire. They were married in the Chapel Royal in the Palace of Whitehall, and then left for his lands in...
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  • Clarendon Palace Havering Palace Kings Langley Palace Woking Palace Woodstock Palace Beaumont Palace Episcopal Palaces: (see Bishop's Palace) Lambeth Palace –...
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    Catherine of high treason, and the English House of Commons passed an order for the removal of her and of all Roman Catholics from the Palace of Whitehall. Several...
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    Inigo Jones (category English people of Welsh descent)
    architecture of Palladio and ancient Rome. This is Jones's earliest-surviving work. Between 1619 and 1622, the Banqueting House in the Palace of Whitehall was...
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    Greenwich Palace and the Palace of Whitehall. During and since the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, the Chapel's primary location is at St James's Palace. The...
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  • VIII of England had several children. The best known children are the three legitimate offspring who survived infancy and would succeed him of England...
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    to the Thames Embankment; Whitehall leading to Parliament Square; The Mall leading to Admiralty Arch and Buckingham Palace; and two short roads leading...
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    Street, was supposed to stop the fire's westward advance towards the Palace of Whitehall. He hoped that the River Fleet would form a natural firebreak, making...
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    Cabinet Office (redirect from 70 Whitehall)
    as the remains of Henry VIII's 1530 tennis courts, part of the Palace of Whitehall, which can be seen within the building. The Whitehall frontage was designed...
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  • residence of the monarch until 1522, when Henry VIII moved his court to the newly acquired Palace of Whitehall. Since that time, the palace at Westminster...
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    Ludwig died before construction work began. The Palace of Whitehall, at the time the largest palace in Europe, was mostly destroyed by a fire in 1698...
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