Queens house, "Queen's house", is a small two-storey building is quite unassuming view to the left from the Maritime Museum. Regarded as part Museum, it has its own very special story in which there's a place for art, love and death.

In 1589 king of Scotland James VI (aka the future king of England James I), married the young daughter of the Danish monarch. Anna Danish was charming and cheerful, but to the intellectual level of the king-philosopher does not hold. The relationship between the couple deteriorated oil to the fire poured the transition of Anna to Catholicism. In 1614 on the hunt Anna accidentally shot beloved dog of the king, his Majesty in the hearts of publicly scolded her Majesty. In an effort to make amends for a wrongdoing, the king gave the Queen manor of Greenwich the old Palace of the Tudors. Anna invited the Danish architect Inigo Jones to build her residence here.

Prior to this, Jones for three years he studied in Italy, Roman and Renaissance architecture. He decided to build the first in England classic building in the Palladian style, painted white, island architecture used mostly red brick. Work went at a good pace until April 1618, when sorokatrekhletnej Anna Danish suddenly fell ill. The following year she died, stopped building. New impetus to the construction site already gave king Charles I Stuart, who wished to complete the Queens house for his beloved Queen Henrietta Maria a French. The work was basically finished in 1635, but enjoyed the Queen's Palace a short time: in 1642 civil war broke out, Parliament fought with the king, over all the flight of the Queen to France and a public execution of Charles I.

After the restoration of Royal power Queens house in 1673 was reserved for the Dutch marine painters, father and son Willem van de Velde, artists hired Charles II, to adequately reflect the victory of England at sea. In 1805 George III gave the building as a school for the children of deceased seamen. A little later, the architect Daniel Asher Alexander added to the Queens house colonnades and wings. In 1986-1999, the Palace was extensively renovated.

At present, it houses the art collection of the National Maritime Museum – paintings, including many portraits of the XVII-XX centuries. The core of the collection are paintings of father and son Willem van de Velde relating to the masterpieces of the Golden age of Dutch painting. Here is a famous painting by Joseph William Turner "battle of Trafalgar".