KENSINGTON PALACE, LONDON 



Sir Christopher Wren, Surveyor-General, and 

 Nicholas Hawksmoor, Clerk of the Works. Kent 

 designed the east front, cupola room, and grand 

 staircase, painting the walls and ceilings. The 

 gardens were laid out by King William, the 

 yews and holly hedges being cut to resemble 

 lines, angles, bastions, scarps, and counterscarps 

 of regular fortifications ; the result was known 

 as the " Siege of Troy." Gibson, in 1691, 

 describes the gardens thus : 



" Kensington Gardens are not great, nor 

 abounding in fine plants. The orange, lemon, 

 myrtles, and what other trees they had there in 

 summer were all removed to Mr. London's and 

 Mr. Wise's greenhouse at Brompton Park, a 

 little mile from them. But the walks and grass 

 laid out are very fine, and they were digging up 

 a flat of four or five acres to enlarge the garden." 



Queen Anne and Prince George of Denmark 

 were as much attached to the palace and gardens 

 as William and Mary had been ; the place was, 

 in fact, settled on Prince George, but he died 

 six years before his wife. Anne added to the 

 gardens, planting nearly thirty acres more to the 

 north, separated from the rest by a large green- 

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