Theobalds House was an Elizabethan prodigy house in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England, built between 1564 and 1585 for William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, and enlarged by his son the Earl of Salisbury. Queen Elizabeth I visited eight times between 1572 and 1596, and after the Cecils exchanged it with the Crown it became King James I's favorite country seat, where he died in 1625; the palace was demolished by 1650 following the English Civil War. A separate Georgian mansion, Theobalds Park, was built on part of the estate in 1763 for George Prescott and survives as a Grade II* listed building, while the site of the original palace is now the public park of Cedars Park. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Lord Burghley commissioned a grand new house, which was built between 1564 and 1585.
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