A chic paradise for shoppers and royal watchers, Kensington
is home to a wealth of stores from high street clothes outlets
to the fascinating antiques shops of Kensington Church Street.
The local attraction is Kensington Palace, home to the late
Diana Princess of Wales, and the delightful Kensington Gardens.
Stroll along the many beautiful mews or grand residential
streets – find the very house where Agatha Christie
penned some of her finest mysteries!
Famous residents of Kensington have included William Makepeace
Thackeray (author of Vanity Fair), Robert Baden-Powell (founder
of the Scout Movement), Bela Bartok, Sir Winston Churchill,
T.S. Eliot, Sir W.S. Gilbert, Henry James, Mohammed Ali Jinnah
(the founder of Pakistan) Jawarharlal Nehru (the first PM
of India).
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