Palace of Placentia
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The Palace of Placentia, after a 17th-century drawing
The Palace of Placentia was an English Royal Palace built by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester in 1447, in Greenwich, on the banks of the River Thames, downstream from London. It was the place of the birth of Elizabeth I in 1533. The Palace was demolished in the seventeenth century .
Coordinates: 51°28′56″N 0°00′24″W / 51.48222°N 0.00667°W
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- Greenwich PalaceGentlemen'sMagazine1840.jpg
A sketch of the Tudor era Greenwich Palace, published long after it was demolished in The Gentleman's Magazine in 1840 (earlier published by W. Bristow in 1797)
- Placentia - geograph.org.uk - 1154521.jpg
Historic marker on the site of the former palace