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In 1698, the Palace of Whitehall, the official residence of the British sovereign, was burnt to the ground in a devastating fire. It was never replaced and very little of it now survives. In this video, I trace the origin of the palace, a residence stolen from Cardinal Wolsey from Henry VIII, and how Henry VIII and successive Tudor and Stuart sovereigns developed it. I look at contemporary images of the palace to get some sense of what Henry VIII's lost palace looked like, and then explore what remains of it above and below ground.

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