In the 1040s King Edward (later St Edward the Confessor) established his royal palace by the banks of ... His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI became the first Pope to visit the Abbey. The Cosmatesque ...

The palace, together with Westminster Hall and Elizabeth Tower—home to Big Ben—are among the most popular historical attractions tourists elect to visit during their stay in the capital.

Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons said: "The Palace of Westminster ... Rod's Garden in Westminster in 2015, making this a second finding of the wall. The first, found medieval ...

By Tube Visitors travelling on the London Underground can use the District, Circle or Jubilee lines to get to Westminster station, which is fully wheelchair accessible. By Train Victoria ...

A ‘Notre Dame inferno’ could be lying in wait for the home of British democracy, a peer has warned after statistics on fires ...

Fire has broken out 45 times in the Palace of Westminster over the last decade, latest figures show, sparking warnings of a “Notre Dame inferno incubating” on the crumbling estate. Labour ...

Small settlements were here from the beginning, but the core area really took off in the late Anglo-Saxon period with the establishment of Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster.

On the death of John's first wife Blanche Chaucer wrote his poem The Book of the Duchess. Gaunt's third wife Katherine was said to have been a sister of the poet's wife. Chaucer held the post of Clerk ...

Lucy Powell said she was in favour of reopening the Palace of Westminster's most famous bar, the Stranger's Bar, which is temporarily closed as police investigate a claim that a date-rape drug was ...

R&R Delivery Authority officials and parliamentary representatives partnered with the Black Country Chamber of Commerce to host the first of the roundtable ... needed for restoring the historic Palace ...

Hundreds of businesses, suppliers, and training providers from all four nations of the UK have been sharing their expertise with Parliament’s Restoration and Renewal (R&R) Programme.