Greenwich Palace — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Henry VII rebuilt the river palace between 1498 and 1504, giving it a five-storey tower and lodgings that faced the Thames. It was not a fortress first but a pleasure house for birth, marriage and escape from London, and even a drowned duke’s disgraced court became a nursery for future queens. Charles II broke the old building open in 1660, and Mary II turned the wound into a hospital for seamen, so the palace stopped being a home and became a mercy.

The National Heritage List for England records Greenwich Palace as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Greenwich Palace was built by King Henry VIII in the early 16th century, with construction beginning around 1514. It is important as a key example of early Tudor architecture and as a former royal residence that later became the site of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, designed by Christopher Wren.

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