At the Kensington Palace, in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea, England

 Kensington Palace is a royal palace in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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(in Kensington and Chelsea, a royal borough in inner London, England, part of the historic county of Middlesex.) It occupies the north bank of the River Thames west of the City of Westminster. The borough of Kensington and Chelsea, forming part of London’s fashionable West End district, is residential in character and includes a royal palace and the embassies of several countries. The present borough was established in 1965 by the amalgamation of the borough of Chelsea with the borough of Kensington, whose royal charter had been granted in 1901.
+ In medieval times the Manor of Chelsea was in the possession of Westminster Abbey. (In the mid-1700s Chelsea became known for the production of Chelsea porcelain, and the area of Ranelagh was a popular entertainment center in the late 1700s.)

+ Kensington Palace is still occupied by members of the royal family. Queen Victoria was born there in 1819. Earl’s Court Exhibition Hall is a concrete structure covering 12 acres (5 hectares) of land. Also notable are Carlyle’s House, home of the writer and historian Thomas Carlyle and his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle; Chelsea Old Church, which was associated with Sir Thomas More in the 1500s; the surviving wings of Holland House; and the Linley Sambourne House, a Victorian townhouse.

+ Among the local galleries are the Orangery and the Ice House, buildings which originally pertained to Holland House. The Leighton House Museum and Art Gallery is known for its ornate Arab Hall and its displays of Victorian art. Collections on the history of the British military since 1485 are in the National Army Museum. (The headquarters of the National Heart and Lung Institute (founded 1946) is in the borough; it was placed under the control of the University of London’s Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine (in Westminster) in 1995.)

+ The southern part of the borough was a favored address for artists, writers, musicians, and bohemians until real estate prices began rising in the 1970s and ’80s. Some still cling to the riverbank in the houseboats immortalized in Joyce Cary’s novel The Horse’s Mouth (1944). Connecting the borough with the south bank of the Thames are Albert Bridge, Chelsea Bridge, and Battersea Bridge.

+ The palace became known as Nottingham House after it was purchased by an earl of Nottingham. The Orangery House in the gardens was built for Queen Anne in 1704, who died at the palace in 1714, as did George II in 1760, and Queen Victoria was born there in 1819.

+ Kensington Palace continues to serve as a residence for British princes and princesses. (Diana, princess of Wales, resided there prior to her death in 1997.) In the north east is the large public Royal Park of Kensington Gardens (contiguous with its eastern neighbour, Hyde Park). The other main green area in Kensington is Holland Park, on the north side of the eastern end of Kensington High Street.