A look through nearly a century of the Queen’s interiors and gardens
For someone who sat on the throne for seven decades, the Queen lived at surprisingly few different addresses. Nonetheless, her various palaces, houses and castles make for interesting reading
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The building the Queen was born in – on Mayfair’s Bruton Street, just off Berkeley Square – is no longer there, having reportedly been demolished by developers before the Second World War; it is now home to an office block and a Rolls-Royce and Bentley dealership. The other buildings that she lived in, however, have fared somewhat better, from the Surrey house the then-Princess Elizabeth and Phillip rented before their marriage in the 1940s to, well, Balmoral and Sandringham. On occasion, the Queen allowed photographers into her residences, offering a window into some of the private spaces in which she lived and worked over the years.













