Kensington Palace
Kensington Palace is a royal residence situated within Kensington Gardens in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has served as a residence for the British royal family since the 17th century and is currently the official London…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Palace
- Description: royal residence set in Kensington Gardens, London, England, UK
- Also known as: “Nottingham House”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kensington Gardens and Royal Albert Hall.
Kensington Gardens
Park
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kensington Gardens, once part of the private gardens of Kensington Palace, are now among the Royal Parks of London and largely open to the public. The gardens are shared by the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and sit immediately to the west of Hyde Park, in west London.
Royal Albert Hall
Theater building
Photo: Sandpiper, Public domain.
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England. It has a seating capacity of 5,272. Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage. Royal Albert Hall is situated 3,000 feet southeast of Kensington Palace.
Natural History Museum
Museum
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The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Natural History Museum is situated 1 mile southeast of Kensington Palace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Black Lion Gate and Bayswater.
Bayswater
Suburb
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Bayswater is an area in the City of Westminster. It is a built-up district with a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre, and is located between Kensington Gardens to the south, Paddington to the north-east, and Notting Hill to the west.
Kensington
Suburb
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Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, around 2.9 miles west of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis.
Kensington Palace
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kensington Palace” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kensington-paleis”
- Arabic: “قصر كنسينغتون”
- Armenian: “Քենսինգթոնյան պալատ”
- Asturian: “Palaciu de Kensington”
- Azerbaijani: “Kensinqton sarayı”
- Basque: “Kensington jauregia”
- Belarusian: “Кенсінгтанскі палац”
- Belarusian: “Кенсінгтонскі палац”
- Belarusian: “Кенсынгтанскі палац”
- Bengali: “কেনসিংটন প্যালেস”
- Bulgarian: “Дворец Кенсигтън”
- Bulgarian: “Дворец Кенсингтън”
- Bulgarian: “Кенсингтън”
- Catalan: “Kensington Palace”
- Catalan: “Palau de Kensington”
- Central Kurdish: “کۆشکی کێنسنگتۆن”
- Chinese: “肯星頓宮”
- Chinese: “肯辛頓宮”
- Chinese: “肯辛顿宫”
- Czech: “Kensingtonský palác”
- Danish: “Kensington Palace”
- Dutch: “Kensington House”
- Dutch: “Kensington Palace”
- Dutch: “Nottingham House”
- Esperanto: “Palaco Kensington”
- Estonian: “Kensingtoni palee”
- Finnish: “Kensingtonin palatsi”
- French: “Kensington Palace”
- French: “palais de Kensington”
- French: “Palais de Kensington”
- Galician: “Palacio de Kensington”
- German: “Kensington Palace”
- German: “Kensington-Palast”
- Greek: “ανάκτορο Κένσινγκτον”
- Greek: “Παλάτι του Κένσινγκτον”
- Hebrew: “ארמון קנזינגטון”
- Hebrew: “ארמון קנסינגטון”
- Hindi: “केन्सिंग्टन पैलस”
- Hungarian: “Kensington-palota”
- Indonesian: “Istana Kensington”
- Irish: “Pálás Kensington”
- Italian: “Kensington Palace”
- Italian: “Palazzo di Kensington”
- Japanese: “ケンジントン宮殿”
- Korean: “켄싱턴 궁전”
- Korean: “켄징턴 궁전”
- Korean: “켄징턴궁”
- Kurdish: “Seraya Kensingtonê”
- Latvian: “Kensingtonas pils”
- Macedonian: “Кензингтонска палата”
- Macedonian: “Кенсингтонска палата”
- Macedonian: “Кенсингтонски дворец”
- Mongolian: “Кенсингтоны ордон”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kensington Palace”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kensington Palace”
- Norwegian: “Kensington Palace”
- Persian: “کاخ کنزینگتون”
- Persian: “کاخ کنسینگتون”
- Polish: “Kensington Palace”
- Polish: “Pałac Kensington”
- Portuguese: “Kensington Palace”
- Portuguese: “Palácio de Kensington”
- Portuguese: “Palácio Kensington”
- Romanian: “Palatul Kensington”
- Russian: “Кенсингтонский дворец”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lùchairt Kensington”
- Serbian: “Кенсингтонска палата”
- Slovenian: “Kensington Palace”
- Slovenian: “Kensingtonska palača”
- Spanish: “Palacio de Kensington”
- Swedish: “Kensington Palace”
- Thai: “Kensington Palace”
- Thai: “พระราชวังเคนซิงตัน”
- Thai: “พระราชวังเค็นซิงตัน”
- Thai: “วังเคนซิงตัน”
- Thai: “วังเค็นซิงตัน”
- Turkish: “Kensington Sarayı”
- Ukrainian: “Кенсінгтонський палац”
- Urdu: “کنسنگٹن محل”
- Urdu: “کینزنگٹن محل”
- Vietnamese: “Cung điện Kensington”
- Waray (Philippines): “Palasyo Kensington”
- Welsh: “Palas Kensington”
- Western Armenian: “Քենսինկթըն պալատ”
- Wu Chinese: “肯辛顿宫”
- Yue Chinese: “肯星頓宮”
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