The royal palaces Historic Royal Palaces looks after

Map of 6 locations in United Kingdom

Six palaces the Crown no longer occupies, handed to a Royal Charter body with charitable status that takes no money from the government or the monarch: the London sites since 1989, Hillsborough Castle since April 2014. Occupied residences such as Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle are kept by the Royal Household instead, which is why they are not here. What links these six is the custody arrangement, from an 11th-century chapel inside the White Tower to the only surviving fragment of the burned Palace of Whitehall.

Places in this collection

  • Hillsborough Castle — The official residence in Northern Ireland of the British monarch and visiting members of the royal family, and of the Secretary of State f…
  • Kew Palace — Known earlier as the Dutch House, this was the residence of George III, Queen Charlotte and their fifteen children, and stands inside Kew G…
  • Kensington Palace — A Jacobean mansion at the edge of Hyde Park, where Historic Royal Palaces manages the State Apartments and the Orangery while the royal pri…
  • Banqueting House — Built in 1622, this is the only surviving part of the Palace of Whitehall, which burned in 1698 and had been, as Henry VIII's London reside…
  • Hampton Court Palace — Henry VIII's favoured residence passed to Historic Royal Palaces, which cares for both the building and its grounds of more than 60 acres;…
  • Tower of London — Conservation, management and display here rest with Historic Royal Palaces, an independent charity rather than a government department. Ins…

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