The king had objected to the government's plan to evict him and turn his ancestral palace into a heritage site.
For Woodward it all begins and ends in Italy, with the Roman Colosseum as starting point and the ancestral palace of Giuseppe di Lampedusa (author of "The Leopard," who saw that home wrecked by American bombs in 1943) as terminus.
The Jumblatts have been lords here for 300 years, and Walid's ancestral palace in the village of Muhktara sits atop a mountain like a castle in Transylvania.
Perhaps there is a reluctance to condemn a man who has often intervened for the better in local life and whose ancestral gothic palace, Mount Stuart, draws visitors to Bute who otherwise would never step on the ferry.
A CENTURY ago the Benin bronze heads, along with intricately carved ivory tusks, adorned ancestral altars in the palace of the King of Benin, or "Oba".
Palaces and ancestral halls were decorated with wall paintings.
Even an hourlong tour of City Palace, a multistory ancestral home of the high-living Anglophile Maharajahs of Jaipur, provides a tantalizing peek into the voluptuary lives of the acquisitive royals, who collected miniatures by the yard, silver by the ton, carpets seemingly by the mile.
The government also oversaw construction of their own administrative offices, palace apartments, city fortifications, ancestral temples, and Buddhist temples.
The sites involved in Churchill 2015 include one of England's most glamorous and conspicuous — dazzling Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, his ancestral home — and what is certainly its most hidden, buried under government buildings in London's Whitehall district.
Thus, ancestral temples are in front of the palace.
Places of historical interest including Ch'anggyŏng (Changgyeong), Kyŏngbok, Tŏksu (Deoksu), and Ch'angdŏk (Changdeok) palaces as well as Chong-myo (Jongmyo), the royal ancestral shrine annually attract large numbers of citizens and tourists; Chong-myo and Ch'angdŏk were designated UNESCO World Heritage sites in 1995 and 1997, respectively.
