For more than 300 years the palace was one of the main royal residences, becoming the principal royal residence after the fire of 1698 destroyed Whitehall Palace. Queen Mary, Henry VIII's daughter ...
Queen Anne, who followed William in 1702, promised to put aside £100,000 for six years to fund the rebuilding of Whitehall Palace. Her endeavours, too, came to nothing. So the wreckage was swept ...