Versailles is one of the most enormous and impressive palaces in the world. King Louis XIV built it in 1634 as a way of controlling the French aristocracy.
A network of tunnels is built by George IV underneath Brighton's Royal Pavilion to shield his appearance from cruel critics; how the Princess Diana statue in Kensington Palace demonstrates the fractured relationship of her sons
Brighton's Royal Pavilion was built by Prince Regent, George IV in 1787. He took a small beach house and turned it into a flamboyant multi-domino-Saracenic wonder palace.
Kensington Palace had always been a party palace but a gap in the line of succession made way for foreign import George I of Hanover and his refurbishments.
London's lost royal palace Whitehall is destroyed, but if you know where to look, it is still possible to find the remnants of what was once the largest palace in Europe.
