Kensington Palace shrubs that had undermined royal gardener Charles Bridgeman’s original landscaping. Two new public gardens to the south and east of the palace were installed that connect the property to Kensington Gardens. The nearest tube stations are Queensway, Bayswater, Kensington High Street, or (slightly farther) Gloucester Road. Kensington Palace Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century, and is currently the official London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke and
James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge have been the first Protestant in the line of succession to the crown, ahead of his sisters Mary and Anne, when the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 deposed his father and insisted on a Protestant succession. Cambridge was born at 1:22 a.m. on , at St. James's Palace, the second but first surviving son and child of the Duke of York (later King James II of England) and his wife, Anne Hyde. He was a grandson of Charles I of England and great-grandson of Henry IV of France. His baptism took place at St. James's Palace on , and was performed