{"id":746,"date":"2011-07-13T22:13:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T10:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2011-07-31T18:07:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T06:07:06","slug":"london-last-week-day-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/london-last-week-day-five\/","title":{"rendered":"London last week day five"},"content":{"rendered":"
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London last week day five<\/a>, a set on Flickr.<\/p>\n

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Today we visited Kensington Palace. This is where many princesses including Princes Diana lived and as it had been her 50th birthday lately there were memorials to her and birthday cards on the gates.
\nKensington Palace is being transformed by a \u00c2\u00a312 million renovation project so they have set up displays in the original rooms of the palace where the Queens and Kensington’s princesses lived.
\nAt the heart of the Enchanted Palace journey is a quest for the seven princesses who once lived here. Their lives have been re-imagined as installations offering a fascinating interpretation of the palace\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hidden stories. The rebellious princess who ran from an arranged marriage into the arms of love. Sad queens who bore the pain and sadness of lost babies. The young heir to the throne who escaped the controlling grasp of her overprotective mother
\nYou have to find clues that reveal the identity of the elusive royal residents. Guided by an enchanted map, with the advice of obliging palace guardians and a few helping hands. These people are actually very very knowledgeable and there are also professional actors, who provide a personal insight into the strange world of the palace and it’s history. From what we heard most of the Stuarts were a very nasty lot. The search takes you to all corners of the State Apartments and leads to a glittering finale where all the princesses are revealed. This was one of the best, most well done and different exhibitions we had seen. It was certainly a different way to view rooms of the palace.
\nThe next plan was to meet up with the boys and Bex at the pub called ‘The Ale and Pie’ where Andrews old school mate and best friend Mathew Cullen works. On the walk to the subway through Kensington Park a little Squirrel ran across the path. Some kids kneeled down to see it & it came over as it thought they had something for it to eat. One lady did have a cherry so it quickly scurried off as soon as it got that.
\nIt was great to catch up with Matt again and he is now managing a very flash pub for the Fullers group in Fleet St. The pub is in a building that was once the Law Courts branch of the Bank Of England. Matt took us down to the basements that still contains the original vaults used to store bullion and some of the Crown Jewels during the First World War. (see pics)
\nMatt had reserved a table for us and made us feel very special. He also provided a selection of the pies that the pup is famous for and they were very tasty. We found out that the pub lies on a site owned by one ‘Sweeny Todd’ The Demon Barber Of Fleet St and the pie shop owned by a Mrs. Lovett his mistress. It was in the tunnels and vaults below the present building that his victims were butchered before being cooked and sold in pies to Mrs Lovetts unsuspecting customers….. Yum yum.
\nAs the pub got busier Matt was unable to socialize with us to much so we left for home. The boys took us to look at a wine bar called Gordons Wine Bar but what they call `The Cave`. It is underground & looks like it may have been a bomb shelter in the war. After a late tea at Nandos we walked along the embankment bridge which is lovely at night with the lights from Parliment & the London Eye (see pics). Then we jumped into one of the famous black London cabs and headed home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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