Banqueting House

Through feast and famine, Banqueting House has been a hideaway for royalty over the centuries. Explore its feasting hall, the secret drinking den, plus a royal execution site for a day full of historic discovery.

Banqueting House played host to kings like James I who would put his feet up with a tipple in the ‘Undercroft’ - his secret drinking den. Then there’s the tale of Charles I who was sent to death in these very halls after years of civil war. Accounts have it that he wore two shirts that morning so that he wouldn’t shiver on approaching the scaffold and be considered a coward.