View of Whitehall, City of Westminster, looking south. Whitehall runs south from Trafalgar Square towards Parliament Square, the site previously occupied by the Palace of Whitehall, the residence of Kings Henry VIII through to William III, before it was destroyed by fire in 1698. In the centre of Whitehall an equestrian statue of Prince George, Duke of Cambridge cousin of Queen Victoria, by sculptor Captain Adrian Jones. The Duke served as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army from 1856 to 1895, and was blamed for British failures in the Second Boer War with the Army's "lack of organization, ignorant and casual officers, inferior human material in the ranks". The statue was unveiled on 15 June 1907 by King Edward VII, and is Grade II listed number 1066108. On the left the War Office building designed in 1898 by William Young, and completed after his death in 1907 by his son Clyde Young and Sir John Taylor. It is Grade II* listed number 1224143. The building was sold by the government in March 2016 for more than £350 million, for conversion to a luxury hotel and residential apartments. Adjacent across Horse Guards Avenue, the Banqueting House part of the former Whitehall Palace built for James I in 1619-25 by Inigo Jones in Palladian style. It is Grade I listed number 1357353. King Charles I was executed on a specially built scaffold outside the Banqueting House on 30 January 1649. After Whitehall Palace was destroyed, Banqueting House was converted to a chapel until 1893 when it was given to the Royal United Services Institute by Queen Victoria, and became used as an army museum which displayed personal items of famous commanders and included the skeleton of Napoleon's horse. The museum closed in 1962 and it is now open to the public who can view the magnificent interior including Rubens’ painted ceiling. A number of vehicles including black cabs are in the street.