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Hace 3 días · The Birth of a Palace. The story of Kensington Palace begins in 1605, when a grand Jacobean mansion was built on the site for the Earl of Nottingham. The house passed through several owners until 1689, when the newly crowned monarchs William III and Mary II chose it as their preferred residence away from the bustling heart of Westminster. As ...
Hace 5 días · Discover the story of Princess Victoria, the young girl destined to be queen, in the rooms where she was born and raised at Kensington Palace.
Hace 5 días · Victoria was born to her parents Prince Edward Augustus (left) and Marie Luise Victoire, Dowager Duchess of Leiningen (right) Victoria was born on May 24, 1819 in the dining room at Kensington Palace
Hace 4 días · Kensington, which is technically described as a suburb of London, in the Hundred of Ossulston, has long enjoyed distinction from its Palace, in which several successive sovereigns of the Hanoverian line held their court, and which was the birth-place of Queen Victoria.
Hace 2 días · One of London's most historic addresses, Kensington Palace was purchased by William III as a country retreat in 1689. Once a suburban Jacobean villa known as Nottingham House, it was extended by ...
Hace 2 días · Kensington palace sold, by the Earl of Nottingham, to King William. Kensington-palace, so called from its contiguity to this place, stands within the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster. It was the seat of Sir Heneage Finch, afterwards Earl of Nottingham, and Lord Chancellor of England, whose son, the second Earl, sold it to King William very soon after his accession to the throne (fn. 70) .
Hace 2 días · CHAPTER III - Hyde Park Gate, Kensington Gate and Palace Gate. This chapter describes the group of streets in the north-west corner of the area covered by this volume (fig. 9), the names of which recall the nearby entrances into Hyde Park and the grounds of Kensington Palace, and the existence until c. 1864 of the toll gate for travellers between Knightsbridge and Kensington (Plate 79e).
