11 Facts About Royal Mews

1.

Royal Mews is a mews, or collection of equestrian stables, of the British Royal Family.

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2.

On old maps, such as the "Woodcut" map of London of the early 1560s, the Royal Mews can be seen extending back towards the site of today's Leicester Square.

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3.

On 15 June 1820, the Guards in the Royal Mews mutinied in support of Caroline of Brunswick, whom King George IV was seeking to divorce.

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4.

Kent's redesign was an impressive classical building occupying the northern half of the site, with an open space in front of it that ranked among the few large ones in central London at a time when the Royal Mews Parks were on the fringes of the city and most squares in London were garden squares open only to the residents of their surrounding houses.

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5.

Present Royal Mews is in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, to the south of Buckingham Palace Gardens, near Grosvenor Place.

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6.

The current Royal Mews was built to designs by John Nash and was completed in 1825 .

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7.

Clarence from the Royal Mews, drawn by a pair of Cleveland Bay horses, passing the Victoria Memorial.

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8.

One of two Royal Mews Barouches carrying members of the Royal Family at the 2009 Trooping the Colour.

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9.

Horses in the Royal Mews today are for the most part either Windsor Greys or Cleveland Bays, though this has not always been the case .

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10.

The Royal Mews Department is overseen by an official called the Crown Equerry.

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11.

At Holyrood, the Royal Mews is one of the oldest parts of the Palace, and is still pressed into service whenever royal carriages are used in Edinburgh.

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