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The Queen Empress with the Dodgy Nose

01/08/2025 donbrown 0

It’s another of those places that is packed with tourists (particularly when there is a Changing of the Guard), but which Londoners would avoid as […]

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Guards! Guards! (And the changing thereof)

21/04/2025 donbrown 0

All you need to know to catch the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace (whether or not you go with Alice).

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The Body in the Lake: a Buckingham Palace Mystery

09/02/2025 donbrown 0

When John Nash remodelled Buckingham Palace and St James’s Park for George IV in the 1820s, he replaced the previous formal ‘canal’ waterway in the […]

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The Wellington (aka Green Park or Constitution Hill) Arch

24/10/2024 donbrown 1

As well as Marble Arch to the north, Park Lane has at its opposite end what is now called the Wellington Arch. This is just […]

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Michael Fagan and Buckingham Palace

14/07/2017 donbrown 0

There might be red-coated soldiers from the elite Guards regiments standing sentry around it (not to mention large numbers of coppers with Big Guns), but […]