Carlton House Terrace

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Sir Walter Besant, in The Fascination of London, published in 1903, continues his survey of the metropolis with this look at Carlton House Terrace:

Carlton House Terrace owes its name to Carlton House, built by Henry Boyle, Baron Carlton, in Queen Anne's reign.

It was afterwards sold to Frederick, Prince of Wales, and was occupied subsequently by George IV.

before he succeeded to the throne. J. T. Smith says: "Many a saturnalia did those walls witness in the days of his hot youth."

Princess Charlotte was born here.

In 1811 the ceremony of conferring the regency upon Prince George was enacted at Carlton House, and in the June following the Prince gave a magnificent supper to 2,000 guests.

In 1827 the house was pulled down.

It stood right across the end of the present Waterloo Place, where now a flight of steps lead into St James' Park.

At the head of the steps is the York Column of granite, 124 feet high, designed by Wyatt, and surmounted by a figure of the Duke of York, son of George III.

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