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Leicester House was a large aristocratic townhouse in Westminster, London, to the north of where Leicester Square now is. Built by the Earl of Leicester and completed in 1635, it was later occupied by Elizabeth Stuart, a British princess and former Queen of Bohemia, and in the 1700s by the two successive Hanoverian princes of Wales.
Leicester House may refer to: Leicester House, the original name of Essex House (London), London, built c. 1575 and demolished in the 1670s. Leicester House, Westminster, the house that Leicester Square is named after, built in the 1630s and demolished c. 1791.
Leicester Square ( / ˈlɛstər / ⓘ LEST-ər) is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London, England. It was laid out in 1670 as Leicester Fields, which was named after the recently built Leicester House, itself named after Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester.
First built in the 1630s, writes Leonard W. Cowie, Leicester House became the London home of three eighteenth-century Princes of Wales. The building of Leicester House in the seventeenth century heralded the expansion of London north-westwards beyond Charing Cross.
Essex House era una casa que encabezaba el Strand de Londres. Originalmente llamada Leicester House , fue construida alrededor de 1575 por Robert Dudley, I Conde de Leicester , y fue rebautizada con el nombre de Essex House después de ser heredado por su hijastro, Robert Devereux, II conde de Essex , después de la muerte de ...
Incluye la entrada gratuita a más de 80 atracciones principales, cruceros, tours y actividades. Leicester Square es uno de los epicentros y zonas más animadas de Londres. Se encuentra en la zona del West End, la zona de teatros de Londres.
30 de oct. de 2022 · The house was built by Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, so as with so many parts of London’s expansion over the last centuries, the square has taken its name from the original aristocratic owner of part of the land, and initial developer.