Information on opening hours and planned closures
Banqueting House closure
Banqueting House is now closed for a period of essential re-servicing, conservation, and maintenance work.
Historic Royal Palaces is grateful to the Garfield Weston Foundation and Wolfson Foundation, whose generous support of the project will help us conserve this magnificent building for generations to come.
Browse History and Stories
The Rubens ceiling
The crowning glory of the Banqueting House
The story of Banqueting House
Four hundred years of history and the site of a royal execution
The execution of Charles I
Tried and sentenced to death for high treason