Palace of Whitehall westward spread of the flames. John Evelyn noted succinctly on 5 January: "Whitehall burnt! nothing but walls and ruins left." Beside the Banqueting House, some buildings survived in Scotland Yard and some facing the park, along with the so-called Holbein Gate, eventually demolished in 1769. During the fire many works of art were destroyed, probably including Michelangelo's "Cupid", a famous sculpture bought as part of the Gonzaga collections in the seventeenth century. Also lost were Hans Holbein the Younger's iconic mural "Portrait of Henry VIII" and Gian Lorenzo Bernini's marble portrait bust of King Charles I. The Banqueting House is
The Last News From France through Westminster Abbey, where Charles II's father, Charles I, was tried for treason, and through the Palace of Whitehall, where he was executed. They then go to Queenhive on the River Thames, where the narrator takes on the name of Mistress Anne, and take a boat to France. Once in France, the king no longer waits on the narrator, but resumes his proper place and becomes the narrator's master, which the narrator prefers. He admits that the king lost the day, but he is proud to have stood by him. This is an extremely political ballad, explicitly positioning itself in