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Contact Information. Richmond Palace was built on the site of the old royal residence of Sheen (named from the Old English word for a 'beauty spot') in Surrey along the banks of the Thames. The royal family had taken up residence at Sheen for Christmas of 1498, but a fire broke out on December 21 and destroyed the old building, along with many ...
- Richmond Gallery
A sketch of Richmond Palace by Anthony van Wyngaerde in...
- Hampton Court Palace
Parts of the Tudor palace were pulled down when construction...
- Anne of Cleves
Although the King of France and the Emperor had gone back to...
- Thomas Wolsey
Son of an Ipswich butcher who entered the church and became...
- Elizabeth I
Elizabeth's life was troubled from the moment she was born....
- Henry VII
Richmond Palace. Buried: 11 May 1509 ... the fallen King was...
- Richmond Gallery
- Domesday to Henry VII
- A Period of Splendor
- Palace of The Forgotten Queens
- The End of The Palace
The first noted history of the site that was to become Richmond Palace was in the Domesday book. The manor of Shene (later spelt Sheen) was part of the royal manor of Kingston; it was owned by Otto de Grandson, a knight from savoy who worked for the English crown and Edward I. Upon Edward’s death, de Grandson left England and the manor reverted to ...
We now come to a period of growth and splendor under the control of Henry Tudor. Henry went to great efforts and expense (catalogue reference: E 101/414/6, f.3) to raise a palace that would be the rival of any in Europe, a crowning achievement in his new kingdom. As the work was ongoing, however, disaster struck once more: while the court was there...
The next period of its history was a convoluted one, with many residents walking its halls. It seems Henry VIII did not share his father’s love for the palace and instead took Hampton Court to be his home. He passed Richmond off to Wolsey, and once Wolsey fell from power it became the ‘Palace of forgotten queens’ where Henry would hide his past con...
We come now to the greatest tragedy to fall on the most beautiful of palaces: Oliver Cromwell. After the execution of Charles I it did not take long for the commonwealth to strip the palace of everything of worth, right down to the stone from which it was built, for profit and to destroy a symbol of the monarchy they had come to hate. This was the ...
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Jan 30, 2021 · Henry V died in 1422 but the council of the next King, Henry VI, resumed the works when he was just eight years old. By 1466, King Edward IV gifted the palace to his wife, Elizabeth Woodville,...
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Mar 24, 2022 · This is a terrace of four houses built in 1725 during the reign of King George I and was used to provide housing for the ladies in waiting of Princess Caroline (queen Caroline from 1727 when her husband George II became king) while she was staying at Richmond Lodge in Old Deer Park. Richmond Palace has long since been demolished except for the ...
History of Richmond Palace. Originally known as the Manor of Shene, it dates back to 1299 when it was owned by Otto de Grandson, a knight who was at the service of King Edward I. Later, on Edward I’s death, Otto de Grandson left England and the manor went to the hands of the royal family. It was during the mid-14 th century when the actual ...
Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond 28 January 1457 Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales: Died: 21 April 1509 (aged 52) Richmond Palace, Surrey, England: Burial: 11 May 1509
Richmond Palace: its History and its Plan by John Cloake. This publication is out of print. We plan to reissue it in 2024. In 1501 King Henry VII celebrated the rebuilding of his palace at Shene by renaming it – and the village – Richmond. This book, published to mark the 500th anniversary of that event, relates a brief history of the two ...
