Palace of Whitehall (gbr)

Palace of Whitehall

Palace of Whitehall ranks 14,270th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Ma'ale Adumim, Nof HaGalil, and Kiryat Shmona. The most famous people from Palace of Whitehall are Charles James Napier. The most famous people who died in Palace of Whitehall are Henry VIII of England, Charles I of England, and Charles II of England. Palace of Whitehall has been the birth place of many military personnels and the death place of many politicians, and noblemen. Palace of Whitehall is located in United Kingdom.

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 structures, with the notable exception of Inigo Jones's Banqueting House of 1622, were destroyed by fire. Henry VIII moved the royal residence to Whitehall after the old royal apartments at the nearby Palace of Westminster were themselves destroyed by fire. Although the Whitehall palace has not survived, the area where it was located is still called Whitehall and has remained a centre of the British government. Read more on Wikipedia