The Royal Children, located in Castle Gate is a one of Nottingham’s oldest public houses[1] first recorded in 1799.

The Princess with Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough and Lady Berkeley, attended by the Bishop of London Henry Compton and the Earl of Dorset remained a few days in Nottingham.

The earliest reference to the pub is in 1799 when the Nottingham Directory lists the landlord as John Clayton.

It became an inn tied to the Home Brewery Company, and in 1933-34 was rebuilt to the designs of Albert Edgar Eberlin.

[3] For many years the sign hanging outside of the inn was a whale bone,[4] but this has been moved inside to reduce deterioration.