Kensington Palace

Kensington Palace

Year

1696

Type

building

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Kensington Palace began as Nottingham House, a modest Jacobean brick mansion of about 1605, before William III bought it in 1689 to escape the damp air of Whitehall. Christopher Wren enlarged it into a working royal palace, adding three-sto …

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