Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace is Queen Victoria's London home in Westminster and the setting for the climax of Syndicate's story, the Queen's ball. It is also where the Queen hands out the Operation side memories, and it has a viewpoint.
- Type
- Landmark
- Region
- Westminster
Good to know
- The Viewpoint page lists it among London landmarks with a viewpoint.
- Story memories: Double Trouble, Dress to Impress and A Night to Remember.
- Queen Victoria gives the Operation side memories here, including Operation: Westminster.
- The Last Maharaja memory A Good Shot is a garden party in the palace grounds.
- A Dreadful Crimes case has a thief steal the Scepter of the Dove from the Queen's safe.
The Queen's ball
To get into the ball, Jacob steals invitations in Double Trouble and a Royal Guard uniform for Abberline in Dress to Impress so weapons can be smuggled in. In A Night to Remember the twins work the party while Starrick goes for the vault beneath the gardens.
How it endsSpoilerShow
Starrick takes the vault key from Evie and dons the Shroud of Eden, which heals him as he fights. Jacob and Evie kill him together and leave the Shroud in its crypt.
Other plots
A thief named Henry Raymond poses as a murdered guard to rob the Queen's safe, and the twins kill him on the palace roof. In The Last Maharaja, British India Company Templars try to shoot Duleep Singh at a garden party.
History
Originally Buckingham House, it was rebuilt by John Nash for George IV from 1826. Victoria was the first monarch to live there.
- Sequence 9: Shall We Dance?Sequence 9 is the finale of the 1868 story: the twins prepare for and then infiltrate the Queen's ball at Buckingham Palace to stop Crawford Starrick reaching the Shroud of Eden. Completing it unlocks the Shall We Dance? achievement, worth 50 Gamerscore or a gold trophy.
- Double TroubleDouble Trouble begins the finale: after a bitter argument, the twins agree to one last job together, and Jacob has to steal William and Catherine Gladstone's invitations to the Queen's ball. The two split up, so you pickpocket each one in turn.
- Dress to ImpressDress to Impress solves the weapons problem for the ball: only Royal Guards carry arms inside, so Jacob takes a guard's uniform for Abberline, who will smuggle the twins' gear into Buckingham Palace.
- Family PoliticsFamily Politics has Evie earn the location of the second set of palace plans by driving Duleep Singh around London in a stolen royal carriage, so he can lobby three politicians about the kingdom Britain took from him.
A Night to RememberA Night to Remember is the final main memory: the twins enter the Queen's ball at Buckingham Palace, Evie retrieves the vault plans from the White Drawing Room while Jacob rescues captive Royal Guards on the roofs, and both face Crawford Starrick in the vault below.- A Good ShotA Good Shot is the first memory of The Last Maharaja: at a garden party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, Henry Green asks you to smooth things over with Duleep Singh after an argument. Duleep challenges you to a bottle-shooting game, and during his turn someone fires a second shot.
- Murder at the Palace!Murder at the Palace! is the final Dreadful Crimes case: Frederick Abberline calls you to Buckingham Palace, where a guard lies dead in Queen Victoria's study on the day of a knighting ceremony. The case pulls in clues from every earlier crime and ends with a rooftop standoff.
- Operation: Drive for LivesOperation: Drive for Lives is the third Queen Victoria memory: the Templar leader has escaped and is believed to be hiding in Westminster. You trail his carriage to Victoria Station, then have to rush a lit cart of explosives away from the crowds.
- Operation: Dynamite BoatOperation: Dynamite Boat is the first Queen Victoria memory: a ship of Templars is bringing dynamite from Boston up the Thames, and you help Alfred Fleming's secret service ambush it. Afterwards you catch the faction's fleeing leader alive.
- Operation: LocomotiveOperation: Locomotive is the second Queen Victoria memory: the Templar prisoner will not talk to Fleming, so the Queen sends you to get answers. A short fight gets you the details of a train packed with dynamite heading for a crowded station, and you have to stop it.
- Queen Victoria's London StoriesQueen Victoria's London Stories are four side memories in which the Queen sends the Frye twins after an upstart Templar faction planning bomb attacks across London. Each one starts at Buckingham Palace and works with her spymaster Alfred Fleming.
- Royal Letter: 13 June 1865This royal letter is Queen Victoria writing to her son Bertie, the Prince of Wales, about the names he has picked for his new baby. She is not impressed.
- Royal Letter: 14 October 1867This royal letter is a journal entry in which Queen Victoria hears of a reported Fenian plot to seize her. She calls the idea foolish.
- Royal Letter: 16 December 1867This royal letter is Queen Victoria scolding the Foreign Secretary, Lord Stanley, for sending dispatches before she has approved them.
- Royal Letter: 16 October 1866This royal letter is Queen Victoria to the Prince of Wales about his wish to visit St Petersburg for the wedding of Princess Dagmar, his wife Alix's sister.
- Royal Letter: 19 December 1867This royal letter is from General Grey to Queen Victoria, laying out the full extent of the threats against her. Lord Derby's own warning follows in the same text.
- Royal Letter: 21 May 1865This royal letter is Mary Lincoln's reply to Queen Victoria's condolences. It is brief and grateful.
- Royal Letter: 22 January 1866This royal letter is Queen Victoria to the Prime Minister, Earl Russell, agreeing to open Parliament but protesting bitterly about it. She compares the ceremony to an execution.
- Royal Letter: 22 May 1867This royal letter is Queen Victoria's birthday note to Bertie, sent with the insignia of the Order of the Thistle. It also hands out honours to other relatives.
- Royal Letter: 26 June 1867This royal letter is Queen Victoria complaining to Lord Charles FitzRoy that people are trying to stop her servant John Brown from attending her at a review in Hyde Park.
- Royal Letter: 27 April 1865This royal letter is from Queen Victoria to her uncle Leopold, King of the Belgians, written while he was ill. She thanks him for writing when weak and pleads with him to follow his doctors.
- Royal Letter: 29 April 1865This royal letter is Queen Victoria's condolence note to Mary Todd Lincoln after her husband's assassination. Victoria writes as one widow to another.
- Royal Letter: 6 February 1866This royal letter is an extract from Queen Victoria's journal describing the day she opened Parliament, the ordeal she dreaded in her letter to Earl Russell.
Related places
- Landmark
Victoria station
Victoria station is a Westminster railway terminus south of Buckingham Palace. In Double Trouble, Jacob comes here after Catherine Gladstone, who is under guard, while gathering invitations to the Queen's ball.
- Landmark
Buckingham Palace vault
The Buckingham Palace vault is a hidden crypt under the palace gardens that holds the Shroud of Eden, the Piece of Eden both the Assassins and Starrick are chasing in Syndicate. You finally reach it during A Night to Remember.
- Landmark
Palace of Westminster
The Palace of Westminster, home of Parliament, is in Westminster beside the Clock Tower. It has a viewpoint, Jacob assassinates the Earl of Cardigan here in Motion to Impeach, and the twins later stop a Templar bomb plot inside.
- Landmark
St James' Park
St James' Park is London's oldest royal park, just east of Buckingham Palace in Westminster. In Triple Theft it is where Jacob and Roth go after Starrick's head of security, Benjamin Raffles.