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Sep 22, 2022 · Leicester House was lived in by many notable figures (Image: Wikimedia Commons) Leicester House was named after Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester after King Charles I asked his Attorney General to prepare a license that allowed the home to be built.
- What's in a name? Leicester House, named after Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, used to sit to the north of what is now Leicester Square. The House, completed in 1635, gave its name to Leicester Fields, which the area was known as when it was home to wealthy residential properties.
- A royal death. Frederick Prince of Wales lived — and died — in Leicester House. He was the oldest son of King George II and Queen Caroline, and father of King George III, but never ascended the throne himself as he died before his father.
- What lies beneath? While you're sitting in Leicester Square watching the action around you, you might not be thinking about what's beneath your feet. The answer is an electricity substation.
- Shakespeare. The centrepiece of Leicester Square (or Leicester Square Gardens to give it its proper name) is the statue of William Shakespeare, a work by Italian sculptor Giovanni Fontana which has been in situ since 1874.
Sep 29, 2024 · Leicester House was for a short time the residence of the Princess Elizabeth, only daughter or James I., the titular Queen of Bohemia, to whom Lord Craven devoted his life and labours, and who, in 1662, here ended her unfortunate life.
First built in the 1630s, writes Leonard W. Cowie, Leicester House became the London home of three eighteenth-century Princes of Wales. The building of Leicester House in the seventeenth century heralded the expansion of London north-westwards beyond Charing Cross.
Oct 30, 2022 · Leicester House went through a number of different residents, and perhaps the most important was the Prince of Wales who would later become George ll. He had been thrown out of the royal apartments at St. James’s Palace following an argument with his father, King George I, and moved in at the end of 1717.
Leicester House was intermittently inhabited during the mid-18th century, and was finally sold to the naturalist Ashton Lever in 1775. Lever turned the house into a museum with a significant amount of natural history objects.
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Jul 21, 2016 · In 1710, Isaac Newton — the man who discovered the law of gravity under an apple tree in Cambridge — came to live in a house just below its south east corner in what is now St Martin's Street.
