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He created the Banqueting House in Whitehall, as a celebration of the Stuart monarchy, from whose balcony Charles I would exit to his execution.
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Originally entitled "The Moor of Venice," "Othello" was first performed by Shakespeare's theatre group, the King's Men on November 1, 1604, in the Banqueting House of London's Whitehall Palace.
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Harmony and symmetry entered English architecture with stage designer Inigo Jones, who brought the aesthetic of Palladio first to the new-build Queen's House at Greenwich and then to his replacement for the destroyed Banqueting House at Whitehall.
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She celebrated her wedding to his son, Hasan, at the Banqueting House in Whitehall in September 2009, and the couple now share a flat in Hampstead.
Lord Woolf's conflict of interest at the LSE | Nick Cohen 2011
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Venue: the magnificent Banqueting House in Whitehall.
PCC reform needs input from redtops and mid-market newspapers 2011
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Jones also designed stage sets for masques and plays, by Ben Jonson among others, many staged at Banqueting House.
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✒It is the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, the wrongly-named "authorised" version, and they held a sort of kick-off celebration at the Banqueting House in London this week.
Ed Miliband is more of a wuss than I thought Simon Hoggart 2010
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One of Peter Paul Rubens's oil sketches for the famous ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall, it was recently acquired by the Tate.
Contemporaries a World Apart Tom L. Freudenheim 2009
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Later, Charles I, when he presumed to authority above that of Parliament, was prodded out a window in the Banqueting House in White Hall where, on a makeshift platform, his head was chopped off by a French swordsman imported for the occasion.
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And not long afterwards at a much larger and quite different kind of dinnerin the Banqueting House, across from Downing Streetour friendship would be on very public show.
A Question of Honour Lord Michael Levy 2008
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