Kensington Palace, London

In the summer of 1689, the King and Queen of England, William and Mary, bought Nottingham House in the rural village of Kensington a few miles outside of London and asked Christopher Wren to improve it. By Christmas of 1689, the Monarchs moved in to live there with their court, and renamed it Kensington Palace.

After their reigns, the house was the residence of Queen Anne, George I and George II up to 1760, but after that, only minor royalty.

George III's son lived in the palace when his daughter was born there in 1819 - Princess Victoria. Her father died when she was less than a year old, and she grew up there but had an unhappy childhood. It was there that she was told she was Queen in June 1837.

Famously, apartments 8 & 9 were the home of Diana, Princess of Wales.

It's now the home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their son, the future George VII.