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The grand buildings on the South Bank of the Thames at Greenwich were designed by Sir Christopher Wren, most famous for St. Paul's Cathedral. The buildings were finally completed in 1745, although some parts started to be used as early as 1705. They are now part of a university - having formerly served as a naval hospital and a naval college - and been the setting for several cinema and television films.
But the buildings stand on a site which has a much longer history, of which now only a fragment remains and that is below the ground.
For nearly two hundred years, from around 1450 to 1650, Greenwich was one of the main royal palaces of England. Some of the most famous English monarchs, such as Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, not only lived there surrounded by their courts, but also had been born there.
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