The Palace of Whitehall – also spelled White Hall – at Westminster was the main residence of the English monarchs from 1530 until 1698, when most of its structures, with the notable exception of Inigo
The Old Palace of Whitehall by Hendrick Danckerts, c. 1675. The view is from the west, in St. James's Park. The Horse Guards barracks are on the extreme left, with the taller Banqueting House behind it. The four-towered building left of centre is the palace gatehouse, the "Holbein Gate".
Inigo Jones's plan, dated 1638, for a new palace at Whitehall, which was realised only in part.
A sketch of Whitehall Palace in 1544, by Anton van den Wyngaerde.
A plan of Whitehall Palace in 1680.
Horse Guards Parade is a large parade ground off Whitehall in central London. It is the site of the annual ceremonies of Trooping the Colour, which commemorates the monarch's official birthday, and th
Trooping the Colour at Horse Guards Parade in Whitehall in 1956
The Coldstream Guards on Parade at Horse Guards, by John Chapman, c. 1755
Horse Guards Parade with the London Eye Ferris wheel in the background at right
Panorama of Horse Guards Parade, from the northwest corner. North: Admiralty Citadel, Admiralty Extension building; east: Admiralty House (with a scaffold at its cornice level), Household Cavalry Museum, Horse Guards, Dover House; South: Cabinet Office, garden wall and trees of 10 Downing Street, Mountbatten Green and small part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; west: St James's Park (at foreground, centre) the Guards Memorial.