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92  L ONDON AREA B Y AREA

Street-by-Street: Piccadilly
Piccadilly and St James’s The street derives its
name from the ruffs, or
As soon as Henry VIII built St James’s Palace Albany “pickadills”, worn by
17th-century dandies.
This mansion has
in the 1530s, the area around it became the been one of London’s
centre of fashionable London, and it has smartest addresses R E G
remained so ever since. Its historic streets, since it opened in 1803. S E N T S T R E E T
squares and arcades attract a truly international – A C
and extremely wealthy – set. The flagship stores K V
of exclusive global brands sit alongside classic I L
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British names that have served royalty
and aristocracy for centuries. The E S T R E E
Royal Academy and many
independent art galleries O T
cluster nearby. L D B
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3 . Royal Academy of Arts D S T
Sir Joshua Reynolds founded the R E P I C C A D I L L Y T
Academy in 1768. Now it mounts E T E
M Y N S T R E
large popular exhibitions.
R
E
Fortnum & Mason J
was founded in 1707
by one of Queen
Anne’s footmen
(see p317).
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T

J A
M
E
S T
4 . Burlington Arcade ’ R Y D E R S T E E
Uniformed beadles S R
T
discourage unruly S S
behaviour in this T N G
19th-century mall. R I
E E K
5 Ritz Hotel T
Named after César Ritz, and
opened in 1906, it still lives S T J A M E S ’ S P L A C E
up to his name.
6 Spencer
House
An ancestor
of Princess CATHERINE WHEEL
Diana built this YARD
house in 1766.

Clarence House was
designed by John Nash for
William IV, and is now Prince
Charles’s London home. STABLE YARD
To The Mall

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