The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Commonly known as the Houses of Parliament after ...

Experts have uncovered a 200-year-old carved, wooden fish while restoring the Palace of Westminster. Archaeologists found the animal figure beneath the House of Lords’ Royal Court and said it was most ...

Every year, without fail, the U.K.’s State Opening of Parliament sparks renewed fascination for its extravagant conventions entangled in royal tradition. The State Opening—which takes place in the ...

November 2006: joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring mission; December 2011: joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring mission; February 2017: joint ICOMOS/ICCROM ...

What’s the issue with the Palace of Westminster? British democracy is falling apart. All too literally. Everyone agrees that the Palace of Westminster – which houses the House of Commons, the House of ...

One of the false myths about the House of Commons is that the front benches are two sword-lengths apart. In fact the width is that of the gangway in St Stephen’s Chapel, allowing a priest and two ...

The Queen is recovering privately under the care of her doctors, the palace said Janine Henni is a Royals Staff Writer for PEOPLE Digital, covering modern monarchies and the world's most famous ...