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Kensington Palace
Kensington Palace is a royal residence set within Kensington Gardens in London, long used by the British royal family and housing both State Rooms and private apartments. Largely rebuilt and extended from the late 17th century by Sir Christopher Wren and later fitted out in early-18th-century style, its State Rooms are open to the public while private wings remain in residential use.
First raised
1605
Its prime
1727
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1727
What Kensington Palace looked like in its prime.
Three-storey red-brick palace block with regular tall multi-pane sash windows in pale stone surrounds, a heavy dentilled cornice and a low‑pitched slate roof; a central raised pediment and a low balustraded parapet topped by stone urns. Flanking lower wings show dormered roofs and tall brick chimneys. A broad gravel forecourt and straight clipped lawns lead up to a prominent stone plinth with a bronze statue at the centre.
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9 places to explore in 1727.
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Families who held Kensington Palace.
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Finch
Nottingham House, the core of the palace, was the seat of the Finch family; Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, sold it to William III in 1689.
Bought and enlarged by William III and Mary II in 1689; a principal residence of the later Stuart monarchs, and Queen Anne died there in 1714.
Favoured residence of George I and George II; Queen Victoria was born and raised in the palace.
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