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Whitehall Palace

London, Velika Britanija

Whitehall Palace, former English royal residence located between the Thames River and the present-day St. James’s Park. London.

In the past cardinal Wolsey swollen the mansion and lived there until his fall, later Henry VIII employed Hans Holbein the Younger decorate it, and made it his principal residence.

Queen Elizabeth I stayed at Whitehall Palace more than at any other palace, because it was close to the Palace of Westminster, where Parliament and the law courts sat. The Queen spent many Christmases at Whitehall Palace

Inigo Jones designed a new palace for James I, but later the Whitehall Palace survived several fires, one of which (1698) destroyed most of the palace.

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