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.
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- Landmark
- Region
- Westminster
Good to know
- Region: Westminster, beneath Buckingham Palace.
- Prince Albert had it built around 1847 to hold the Shroud.
- Its architecture and statues of Juno suggest it sits on an older Isu temple.
- In the modern day, Shaun and Rebecca go there in 2015 to recover the Shroud.
The trail
Edward Kenway first hid the Shroud in the Tower of London. Evie follows clues from the Kenway Mansion to a key hidden atop St. Paul's, and papers on Prince Albert show the Shroud was moved here.
The final fightSpoilerShow
At the Queen's ball Starrick steals the key from Evie and opens the case. After a long fight, the twins strip the Shroud from him, kill him and leave it where it lay.
2015SpoilerShow
The Assassins and Abstergo both find the crypt through the twins' memories. Rebecca is hurt, the Templars take the Shroud, and Shaun kills Isabelle Ardant.
- Change of PlansChange of Plans sends Evie and Henry after the architectural plans that may show a vault Prince Albert added to Buckingham Palace. Maharajah Duleep Singh tells them Starrick's people got there first, and the job goes wrong when Henry is taken.
- 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.
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Buckingham Palace
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Palace of Westminster
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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.
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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.