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The Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College is being renovated. Now the remains of the Palace of Placentia, as it was identified then, have been uncovered by a group renovating the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich on the banks of the Thames. From around 1455 the residence was lived in by Margaret of Anjou, consort of Henry VI, who named it ‘Plaisance’ or ‘Placentia’ – which means a pleasant location. Robert, the eldest, regardless of becoming in armed rebellion against his father at the time of his death, received Normandy. England was provided...