Duke of Marlborough

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Sir Walter Besant, in The Fascination of London, published in 1903, continues his survey of the city's royal residences with a look at Marlborough House:

Just opposite St James' Palace is Marlborough House, the residence of the Prince and Princess of Wales.

The house was built in 1709 at the public expense, as a national compliment to the Duke of Marlborough.

Sir Christopher Wren was the architect.

After the death of the third Duke it was sublet to Leopold, subsequently King of the Belgians.

Queen Adelaide lived in it after the death of King William IV.

The building was afterwards used as a gallery for the pictures known as the Vernon Collection.

But in 1850 it was settled on King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, when he should attain his eighteenth year, which he did nine years later.

The interior is decorated with beautiful mural paintings executed by La Guerre; many of these represent the battles of the famous Duke of Marlborough.

On the removal of the King to Buckingham Palace the present Prince of Wales (1903) comes in his turn to Marlborough House.

Next: Carlton House Terrace