Richmond Palace was a Thameside royal residence erected around 1501 and occupied by royalty until 1649. It replaced a former manor house that had been appropriated by royalty some two centuries beforehand - being variously adapted to become a palace during that period and occupied by the monarch of the day for most of the time. The area was then known as Shene (or Sheen) in the county of Surrey, but following construction of the new Richmond Pala...
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Richmond Palace was a Thameside royal residence erected around 1501 and occupied by royalty until 1649. It replaced a former manor house that had been appropriated by royalty some two centuries beforehand - being variously adapted to become a palace during that period and occupied by the monarch of the day for most of the time. The area was then known as Shene (or Sheen) in the county of Surrey, but following construction of the new Richmond Palace in 1501 the surrounding district and the adjacent town became known as Richmond. It remained part of Surrey until the mid-1960s, when it was absorbed by the expansion of London.
Henry I lived briefly in the King's house in Sheanes (or Shene or Sheen).
In 1299 Edward I "Hammer of the Scots", took his whole court to the manor-house at Sheen, a little east of the bridge, and close by the river side, which thus became a royal palace. William Wallace was executed in London in 1305, and it was in Sheen that the Commissioners from Scotland went...
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