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WHITEHALL AND WESTMINSTER
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Whitehall is synonymous with the faceless, pinstriped bureaucracy who run the various
governmental ministries located here, while Westminster remains home to the Houses of
Parliament. Both are popular with visitors thanks to the Changing of the Guard, and
familiar landmarks such as Nelson's Column, Big Ben, and Westminster Abbey, Lon-
don's most historic church.
Political, religious and regal power has emanated from Whitehall and Westminster for
almost a millennium. It was King Edward the Confessor who first established this spot
as London's royal and ecclesiastical power base in the eleventh century. He built his
palace and abbey some three miles upstream from the City of London, and it was in the
abbey that the embryonic English parliament used to meet in the Middle Ages.
 
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