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ROYAL ALBERT HALL
South Kensington, Knightsbridge
and Chelsea
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, particularly the area around
Knightsbridge, has been in vogue ever since royalty moved into Kensington
Palace in the late seventeenth century. The popular tourist attractions lie in
South Kensington, where three of London's top free museums - the Victoria
and Albert, Natural History and Science museums - stand on land bought
with the proceeds of the 1851 Great Exhibition. Chelsea, to the south, also
has royal connections, though these date mostly from Tudor times and have
left only a few scant remains. Since the nineteenth century, however, when
artists and writers began to move here, Chelsea has been more bohemian
than its neighbours - today, the Saatchi Gallery continues that tradition.
 
 
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