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Vor 5 Tagen · Whitehall: Historical and Architectural Notes. Notes on the Palace of Whitehall, including illustrations. British History Online (no series) . This free content was digitised by double-rekeying. Public Domain . Citation: W J Loftie, 'Whitehall', in Whitehall: Historical and Architectural Notes, (London, 1895).
Vor einem Tag · The monarch 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 there since the 13th century. In 1834 a second, larger fire destroyed the majority of the palace, but Westminster Hall was saved and incorporated into the replacement palace.
Vor 2 Tagen · In 1682 government official Sir George Downing undertook the construction of a row of houses in Westminster, near Whitehall Palace. Fifty years later King George II offered one of them, then known as 5 Downing Street (renumbered in 1779), as a personal gift to Sir Robert Walpole, the first lord of the Treasury.
Vor 5 Tagen · The gardens adjoining Whitehall Palace on the south and south-west were laid out in terraces, square and formal in plan, and adorned, after the fashion of the times, with statues of marble and bronze, many of which were subsequently removed to Hampton Court.
Vor einem Tag · About twelve o'clock the Queen with her ladies placed themselves at the windows in a long room (fn. n5) of weithol [Whitehall] palace, near Westminster, opposite the barrier, where the tournament was to be held.
Vor 5 Tagen · Aerial cameras then follow the Prime Minister’s car as it drives up Whitehall, along the Mall and through the front gates of the palace. The Monarch meets the departing Prime Minister and then their successor, often in quick succession. Recently, it has become customary for a former Prime Minister’s partner and children to be invited to ...
Vor 4 Tagen · First days and weeks. Within days Labour could enact several policy changes to emphasise its break with successive Tory administrations. Starmer has said he would axe the Rwanda asylum scheme on ...
