If all eyes this weekend have been on St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, for the wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, one formerly impressive location was off the table as a setting for the nuptials.

A look at the lost palace of Whitehall destroyed by fire in 1698, and the sole surviving building from the complex. Plus, the story of a couple who decided to invite the Queen to their wedding in 2012 ...

The Palace of Whitehall was once a place of grandeur and revelry — and deadly secrets — until it met its demise in the late-17th century. Now the people at Historic Royal Palaces have the ability to ...

The last president to stay at Buckingham Palace was an idealist without question. At a dinner hosted by King George V in 1918, Woodrow Wilson made a pledge. With typical American understatement, he ...

The Historic Royal Palaces' project, The Lost Palace, has just launched and uses interactive technologies to guide visitors on a digital adventure to discover a hidden history. This new visitor ...

Disaster struck at four in the afternoon on 4 January 1698, when a basket of linen, left out to dry beside a charcoal fire, set alight. It wasn't the first accident to befall the palace: just seven ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

From Chapter One: 'A Battle of Wills' Late in the afternoon of Tuesday, December 26, 1598, two days before their fateful rendezvous at the Theatre, the Chamberlain's Men made their way through ...

The brutal king is best-known for having six marriages, initiating the English Reformation and beheading anyone who went against him, but remains from his reign show the true extent of his greed and ...