Banqueting House is closed until 2025 for a period of essential re-servicing, conservation, and maintenance work.
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- Things to see
Charles I’s execution site
Walk in the footsteps of the condemned King and stand on the spot of Charles I's execution, just outside Banqueting House.
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- Banqueting House
- Included in palace admission (members go free)
- Things to see
Art and sculpture
See images of James I and Charles I among the important collection of art and sculpture at Banqueting House.
- Closed
- Banqueting House
- Included in palace admission (members go free)
- Things to see
Banqueting Hall
Experience James I's breathtaking Banqueting Hall, created in 1622 as a venue for extravagant Jacobean entertainments.
- Closed
- Banqueting House
- Included in palace admission (members go free)
BROWSE MORE HISTORY AND STORIES
The Rubens ceiling
The crowning glory of the Banqueting House
James I and Anne of Denmark
Generous, scholarly James and his cultured wife
The execution of Charles I
Tried and sentenced to death for high treason