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Kensington Palace is a royal home for over 300 years and parts of the building will remain a private residence of the royal family members. lavish state apartments and a collection of festive clothing, including dresses worn by Queen and Diana, Princess of Wales, are open to the public.

William III was the first ruler to invest in Kensington, which was then a small village, buying a Jacobean mansion in 1689, he became king. As an asthma sufferer, he wanted London to escape a smoke-filled air, but stay within reach of their social life. Christopher Wren, which has proved its value many times over the past 20 years, passed with his young assistant Nicholas Hawksmoor to renew and significantly increase the home. She became the center court life until 1762, when George III purchased Buckingham House.

Despite the small room, George was able to present a note from the grandeur of the staircase Colen Campbell and William Kent's tromper-l'oeil dome ceilings and beautiful room. Queen Anne subsequently added to the orangery with its Grinling Gibbons woodwork.

In 1819, Princess Victoria of Kent was born in the palace. She had a relatively rural childhood - the area was not seriously developed until the advent of the Great Exhibition in 1851. It is also here, at the age of 18, she woke up one morning to be told she had inherited the throne. Her childhood dolls' house is still on view.

fronting Hyde Park is also a great facade Kensington Palace. There is a statue of William of Orange at Kensington Palace.