Just saw ELIZABETH: GOLDEN ERA. Did those scenes take place in Buckingham Palace? Where did she live??

Question

And are they still in existant?

Answer 1

Elizabeth Ist's principal palace was Whitehall palace, this was the main residence of English Monarchs from 1530 -1698 when it was destroyed by fire. Whitehall's banqueting house survived and can still be seen, although not open to the public. At the time Whitehall was the largest palace in Europe.

Elizabeth's father Henry VIII had also built a new palace St James Palace (which still survives in London on Pall Mall) and this was also used as a royal residence, as was Greenwich Palace (where Elizabeth Ist was born) and Windsor Castle.

Elizabeth Ist was also famous for her tours of the country where she would stay at various stately homes, this had the added advantage to her of being very cheap as the cost was borne by whomever she stayed with.

Answer 2

Buckingham Palace, formerly Buckingham House wasn't built until the 1800s and she's very late 1500-early 1600s; however I don't recall where Queen Elizabeth 1 lived.

Answer 3

Queen Elizabeth I spent most of her time at Windsor castle, they even say her ghost still haunts the library there. It's unlikely those castle scenes were shot anywhere else but a sound stage.

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Answer 4

Buckingham Palace did not exist until exactly one hundred years after Queen Elizabeth I of England. Originally known as Buckingham House, the building forming the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703 (Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603) and acquired by King George III in 1762 as a private residence, known as "The Queen's House."

Queen Elizabeth I spent a great deal of time moving from one residence to another. Most of the time, she resided in one of the great royal palaces including St James's Palace, Palace of Whitehall, Hampton Court, Greenwich Palace, Richmond Palace, Palace of Westminster, Windsor Castle, and towards the end of her reign, Nonsuch.

Her court was wherever the Queen happened to be and was made up of all those who surrounded the Queen from servants to the courtiers themselves.

St. James's Palace is one of London's oldest palaces. It is situated on Pall Mall in London, just north of St. James's Park. Henry VIII commissioned the palace on the site of a former leper hospital dedicated to Saint James the Younger. Mary I died there, with her heart and bowels being buried in the palace's Chapel Royal. Elizabeth I was said to have spent the night there, whilst waiting for the Spanish Armada to sail up the channel.

The Palace of Whitehall was the main residence of the English monarchs in London from 1530 until 1698 when all except Inigo Jones's 1622 Banqueting House was destroyed by fire. Before the fire it had grown to be the largest palace in Europe, with over 1,500 rooms (and was at one time the largest building in the world). Banqueting House is the only integral building of the complex now standing, although it has been somewhat modified. Various other parts of the old palace still exist, often incorporated into new buildings in the Whitehall government complex. These include parts of the former covered tennis courts from the time of Henry VIII built into the Old Treasury and Cabinet Office at 70 Whitehall.

Hampton Court Palace is a former royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, south west London, England, United Kingdom. The palace is located 11.7 miles south west of Charing Cross and upstream of Central London on the River Thames. It is open to the public as a major tourist attraction.

The Palace of Placentia (The Greenwich Palace) was an English Royal Palace built by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester in 1428, in Greenwich, London on the banks of the River Thames. The Palace was demolished and replaced with the Greenwich Hospital (now The Old Royal Naval College) in the late seventeenth century.

Richmond Palace was a royal residence from 1327 to 1649 on The Green, Richmond, United Kingdom. The first, pre-Tudor version of the palace was known as Sheen Palace at what is now the garden of Trumpeters' House.

The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, in London is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) meet to conduct their business. The Palace lies on the north bank of the River Thames in the London. On 16 October 1834, most of the Palace was destroyed by fire. Only Westminster Hall, the Jewel Tower, the crypt of St Stephen's Chapel and the cloisters survived. A Royal Commission was appointed to study the rebuilding of the Palace.

Windsor Castle, in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, is the largest inhabited castle in the world and, dating back to the time of William the Conqueror, is the oldest in continuous occupation. It is one of the principal official residences of the British monarch. Queen Elizabeth II spends many weekends of the year at the castle, using it for both state and private entertaining.

Nonsuch Palace was a Tudor royal palace that was built by Henry VIII in Surrey, on the location of Cuddington, near Epsom. The palace was broken up in the late 17th century, and parts were incorporated into other buildings. No trace of the palace remains on its site, with the exception of the foundations of the banqueting hall, but some pieces are held by the British Museum.