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	Palace of Placentia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Palace of Placentia was an English Royal Palace built by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester in 1428, in Greenwich, London on the banks of the River Thames.
		The Palace was demolished and replaced with the Greenwich Hospital in the late 17th century.
		Both Mary and Elizabeth lived at Placentia for some years during the 16th century, but during the reigns of James I and Charles I, the Queen's House was erected to the south of the Palace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palace_of_Placentia (389 words)

	Buckingham Palace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The palace, originally known as Buckingham House (and still nicknamed "Buck House" by the royal family), was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703 and acquired by King George III in 1762 as a private residence.
		James's Palace remained the official and ceremonial royal residence; indeed, the tradition continues to date of foreign ambassadors being formally accredited to "the Court of St. James's", even though it is at Buckingham Palace that they present their credentials and staff to the Queen upon their appointment.
		On VE Day (May 8, 1945), the Palace was the centre of British celebrations, with the King, Queen and the Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen, and Princess Margaret appearing on the balcony, with the palace's fled-out windows behind them, to the cheers from a vast crowd in the Mall.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buckingham_Palace (6706 words)

	Palace of Placentia: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A palace is an important urban residence of a royal or noble family, with its origins as the executive power center of a kingdom or empire....
		Windsor castle is (along with buckingham palace in london and holyrood palace in edinburgh) one of the principal official residences of the british monarch,...
		The palace of whitehall was the main residence of the english monarchs in london from 1530 until 1698 when all except inigo jones 1622 banqueting...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/palace_of_placentia.htm (1344 words)

	Palace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A palace is an important urban residence of a royal or noble family, with its origins as the executive power center of a kingdom.
		The original palaces on the Palatine Hill were the seat of the imperial power, while the capitol on the Capitoline Hill was the seat of the senate and the religious nucleus of Rome.
		Speakers of English think of the "Palace of Versailles" because it was the residence of the King of france, and the king was the source of power, though the building has always remained the Château de Versailles for the French, and the seat of government under the ancien regime remained the Palais du Louvre.
	palace.kiwiki.homeip.net (1996 words)

	Term paper on Buckingham Palace
		The palace originally known as Buckingham House, a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703, was acquired by King George III in 1762 as a private residence.
		During the reign of HM [[Queen Elizabeth II, the palace interiors have been open for public viewing for the first time in its history.]] The principal rooms of the palace are contained on the piano nobile behind the west-facing garden facade at the rear of the palace.
		So rigid was the palace dress code that after World War I when Queen Mary wished to follow fashion by raising her skirts a few inches from the ground, she asked a Lady-in-Waiting to shorten her skirt first to gauge the King's (her husband's) reaction.
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	ipedia.com: Buckingham Palace Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1826 King George IV commissioned John Nash to remodel the palace; however, the heavily gilded present interiors were not completed until the reign of William IV and his wife, Queen Adelaide, though the King never lived there.
		Buckingham Palace is also the venue for the daily ceremony of the Changing of the Guard, a major tourist attraction.
		The opening of the palace state rooms to the public was a huge change to tradition in the 1990s.
	www.ipedia.com /buckingham_palace.html (909 words)

	Palace of Placentia: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Palace was demolished and replaced with the Greenwich Hospital (Greenwich Hospital: the greenwich hospital was founded in 1694 as the royal naval hospital for seamen and...
		Placentia fell into disrepair during the English Civil War (English Civil War: Civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I; 1644-1648), serving time as a biscuit factory and a prisoner-of-war camp.
		The rest of the palace was demolished, and the site remained empty until construction of the Greenwich Hospital (Greenwich Hospital: the greenwich hospital was founded in 1694 as the royal naval hospital for seamen and...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/palace_of_placentia (478 words)

	Wikinfo \| Palace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A palace is an important house, usually a townhouse, of a royal or noble family; later, and by extension, the executive residence of a nation.
		The word palace to describe a royal residence comes from the name of one of the seven hills of Rome, the Palatine Hill.
		The Palatine was according to tradition where Romulus and Remus founded Rome, and long after the city grew to the seven hills the Palatine remained a desirable residential area.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Palace (305 words)

	Palace of Whitehall - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Palace of Whitehall was the main residence of the English monarchs in London from 1530 until 1698 when all except Inigo Jones' 1622 Banqueting House was destroyed by fire.
		By the 13th century, the Palace of Westminster had become the centre of government in England, and had been the main London residence of the king since 1049.
		In 1691, when the palace was the largest palace complex in Europe — and a jumble of buildings — a fire destroyed much of the older palace structures.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Palace_of_Whitehall (866 words)

	Placentia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Placentia is a Latin word meaning 'acceptable (later: pleasant) things', and the name of various places :
		Piacenza in Italy was formerly called Placentia in Latin and English
		The Palace of Placentia was a royal palace in Greenwich, London
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Placentia (121 words)

	Searching the Thames: Greenwich
		Placentia was a conglomeration of domestic and administrative buildings spreading out haphazardly along this stretch of the Thames where the elegant arrangement of Wren buildings now stands and it features in the background of numerous seventeenth-century paintings in the National Maritime Museum.
		Henry VIII was born in Placentia, as were his daughters Mary and Elizabeth, and the ancient hollow oak tree where Henry courted Anne Boleyn and where little Elizabeth played finally blew down only during the gales of the early 1990s.
		At a window of Placentia Henry's son, the sickly and sad young king, Edward VI was displayed, rouged and coroneted, by his `protectors' the Duke of Somerset and the ambitious John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.
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	Telegraph \| News \| Henry VII's chapel found at Greenwich
		The existence of the chapel, part of the Royal Palace of Placentia, a Tudor favourite but pulled down in the 17th century to be replaced by Greenwich Hospital - now the Old Naval College - has long been known from paintings and records.
		Both weddings took place in the Palace of Placentia - which means pleasant place to live - but records do not show whether they were in the chapel itself or, more probably as some historians believe, in a private room or closet in his quarters overlooking the chapel.
		Placentia is the least known of London's Tudor palaces.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/25/nchap25.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/25/ixhome.html (517 words)

	Buckingham Palace - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Many people feel King Edward's heavy redecoration of the palace does not complement Nash's original work.Robinson (Page 9) asserts that the decorations, including plaster swags and other decorative motifs, are "finicky" and "at odds with Nash's original detailing". However, it has been allowed to remain for one hundred years.
		The last major building work took place during the reign of King George V when, in 1913, Sir Aston Webb redesigned the famous east, principal, 1850 facade by Blore to resemble in part Giacomo Leoni's Lyme Park in Cheshire.
		Buckingham Palace, History, House to palace, Queen Victoria, The 20th century, World War, Interior, Court ceremonies, Security, Use and public access, Flags at Buckingham Palace, The Palace today, See also, Footnotes, References, External links, Grade I listed buildings, Palaces in England, Royal buildings in London and Westminster.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Buckingham_House (6759 words)

	Greenwich Guide - The Old Royal Naval College
		He started building a palace near the river, to be named Bella Court, and enclosed the rectangular area of land which now comprises the Old Royal Naval College, the National Maritime Museum, and Greenwich Park.
		It was renamed the Palace of Placentia, and was to become the principal Royal palace for the next two centuries.The palace was extensively rebuilt during the period, especially during the reign of Henry VII.
		Placentia fell into disrepair during the Commonwealth, and in 1660 Charles II decided to rebuild it in the new classical style.
	www.greenwich-guide.org.uk /rnc.htm (1034 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Vestry survived the demolition of the rest of the Palace and was later converted into a house for the Treasurer of Greenwich Hospital, a position first held by diarist John Evelyn between 1697 and 1703.
		The palace was altered in the first years of Henry VIII’s reign to improve the house left to him by his father.
		Standing on the site of the Tudor palace where Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were born, and managed by the Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College, the buildings and grounds house the University of Greenwich and Trinity College of Music and are open to the public free of charge.
	www.greenwichfoundation.org.uk /news.htm (1115 words)

	Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
		The last major building work was during the reign of King George V when, in 1912, Sir Aston Webb re-designed the principal Victorian facade to resemble in part Giacomo Leoni's Lyme Park in Cheshire.
		The principal rooms of the palace are contained behind the, west facing, garden facade at the rear of the palace.
		In addition to being the week-day home of HM Queen Elizabeth II, the palace is the working place of 450 people.
	www.irelandinformationguide.com /Buckingham_Palace (873 words)

	London topography prints and engravings page 1
		Lambeth Palace is the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
		The Royal Palace of Placentia was started in the 15th century but became an important palace under the Tudors.
		During the reign of the Hanoverian kings the Palace fell out of use and eventually was knocked down and replaced with what has long been known as the Royal Naval College.
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	Christian News, Updated Daily - Christian Today > Lost Tudor Chapel Found in London
		The chapel originally built by Henry VII, was used as a place of worship by the monarch and his successors from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I. The chapel was originally part of the Tudor Royal Palace of Placentia (meaning ‘pleasant place to live’) was one of the favoured palaces of the Tudor monarchs.
		Placentia did not survive the 17th century, as it was demolished to make way for the Greenwhich Hospital.
		Henry VIII clearly agreed with his father about the palace being ‘a pleasant place to live’ for it was his favourite residence during the early half of his reign, and his two daughters, the future queens Mary and Elizabeth were born there.
	www.christiantoday.com /news/church/lost.tudor.chapel.found.in.london/978.htm (700 words)

	Central Greenwich
		Soon after Henry V had severed the connection with Ghent in 1414 Duke Humphrey of Gloucester built himself a fine house on the riverside which was later to become the royal Palace of Placentia, and then Greenwich palace, a favourite home of the Tudor monarchs.
		The palace with its royal park to the south split the community in two: a distinction that still survives as East and West Greenwich.
		The riverside area, apart from the area of the palace, was similar to many other Thameside areas: working wharves, a tangle of narrow alleys with many riverside pubs, and neglected housing.
	www.ideal-homes.org.uk /greenwich/main/central-greenwich.htm (530 words)

	Eltham Palace: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was built in the 1930s (1930s: The decade from 1930 to 1939) on the site of an older building also called Eltham Palace.
		In 1995 English Heritage assumed management of the palace, and in 1999 completed major repairs and restorations of the interiors and gardens.
		The palace is open to the public and can be hired for weddings and other functions.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/eltham_palace (206 words)

	Greenwich through the ages - Thames art, literature and architecture - Port Cities
		It was renamed the Palace of Placentia, and was to become the principal royal palace for the next two centuries.
		The palace was extensively rebuilt during the period, especially during the reign of Henry VII.
		The Tudor palace of Placentia, where the Old Royal Naval College now stands, was as important for the early Stuart kings as it had been for the Tudors.
	www.portcities.org.uk /london/server/show/ConGallery.58/Greenwich-through-the-ages.html (646 words)

	Linlithgow Palace - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The ruins of Linlithgow Palace are situated in the town of Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, 15 miles west of Edinburgh.
		Mary Queen of Scots was born here in December 1542 and occasionally stayed at the Palace during her reign.
		The palace has been actively conserved since the early 19th Century and is managed and maintained by Historic Scotland.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Linlithgow_Palace (393 words)

	King Henry VIII's palace chapel found -- Middle East Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A palace chapel - untouched for 300 years - underneath the room where England's King Henry VIII married two of his six wives was accidentally uncovered by plumbers, reports said on Wednesday.
		Henry VIII, who rated the palace on the Thames as his favorite, was born there and married Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves in the closet above the newly-rediscovered chapel.
		The king's second wife, Anne Boleyn, also gave birth to Elizabeth I in the palace, which was built by Henry VII between 1500 and 1504 on the site of an earlier Royal manor.
	www.metimes.com /print.php?StoryID=20060126-050644-3222r (426 words)

	Elizabeth I of England - Simple English Wikipedia
		Elizabeth I was born in the Palace of Placentia.
		She died on March 24, 1603 at the age of 69 years in Richmond Palace.
		There have been many films about Elizabeth I. Bette Davis played Elizabeth I, with Errol Flynn, in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939).
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England (320 words)

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