St James's Palace St James's Palace St James's Palace is the most senior royal palace in the United Kingdom. Located in the City of Westminster, although no longer the principal residence of the monarch, it is the ceremonial meeting place of the Accession Council and the London residence of several minor members of the royal family. Built by King Henry VIII on the site of a leper hospital dedicated to Saint James the Less, the palace was secondary in importance to the Palace of Whitehall for most Tudor and Stuart monarchs. The palace increased in importance during the reigns of the early Georgian
Monarch-class coastal defense ship off Crete during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. However, less than five years after their completion, the "Monarch"-class battleships were rendered obsolete by the newly commissioned . The newly completed conducted a training cruise with the three "Monarch"-class battleships in January 1903; they were joined by the following year. During the 1904 training exercises, the three "Habsburg"-class battleships engaged the three "Monarch"s in simulated combat; the maneuver marked the first time two homogeneous squadrons consisting of modern battleships operated in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. The three "Habsburg"-class ships took over the position of the I Division while the "Monarch"s formed the