A royal residence at Sheen, later Richmond, where Edward III died in 1377.
Sheen Palace (later Richmond Palace) on the Thames in Surrey was a significant English royal residence. Richard II ordered it demolished after the death of his queen, Anne of Bohemia, there in 1394; it was later rebuilt by Henry V.
Sheen's destruction by Richard II following Anne's death illustrates the personal dimension of royal grief and decision-making in the late fourteenth century. The palace's subsequent rebuilding under the Lancastrian kings reflects the continuity of the Thames river corridor as the primary landscape of English royal residence.