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Hace 3 días · Built in 1709–10, by Sir Christopher Wren for John, Duke of Marlborough, on ground leased on easy terms to his Duchess by Queen Anne; it occupies the site of the old pheasantry of St. James's Palace, and of the garden of Mr. Secretary Boyle, the latter of which was taken out of St. James's Park.
Hace 2 días · France quartered with England with the difference of a bend gules with three roundels argent thereon: a wrongly-painted coat intended perhaps to commemorate the first duke of St. Albans.
Hace 5 días · Beauclerk applied to Lord Grosvenor for permission to use the house as a hotel, which involved breaking the normal covenants of Grosvenor leases.
Hace 4 días · In the Roman period there was apparently an important road coming from the south-west, passing through the Roman city and on to Sandridge. Another road from London through Shenley, made probably in the eleventh century, (fn. 14) came into St. Albans at Sopwell Lane.
Hace 3 días · Discover how the arrival of the railways in the 19th century transformed St Albans and its industries. Hear stories of straw hat making, early cinema, Victorian philanthropy and how the prison gateway became an unlikely TV star.
Hace 2 días · The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III of England in 1348. Dates shown are of nomination or installation; coloured rows indicate sovereigns, princes of Wales, medieval ladies, modern royal knights and ladies, and stranger knights and ladies, none of whom counts toward the 24-member limit.
Hace 4 días · Just a few years later, the Pope’s favoritism toward his native England was revealed in his support for St. Alban’s Abbey (now a Church of England cathedral). He is reported to have issued a papal bull, Laudabiliter , which granted permission to King Henry II to invade Ireland.
