Banqueting House is currently closed for a period of essential re-servicing, conservation, and maintenance work and is open for events only from October 2025.
Tickets are available for select Open Days and Members-Only Days in November 2025.
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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.
- Banqueting House
- Included in palace admission (Members go free)
- Things to see
Art and sculpture
See images of James I and VI and Charles I among the important collection of art and sculpture at Banqueting House.
- Banqueting House
- Included in palace admission (Members go free)
- Things to see
Banqueting Hall
Experience James I and VI's breathtaking Banqueting Hall, created in 1622 as a venue for extravagant Jacobean entertainments.
- Banqueting House
- Included in palace admission (Members go free)
Browse more history and stories
James I and Anne of Denmark
Generous, scholarly James and his cultured wife
The masque
A fabulously extravagant early 17th century court entertainment
The execution of Charles I
Killing of a 'treasonous' King