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Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Walk

Seven miles of plaques through four royal parks: less a pilgrimage than the best excuse in London to spend a whole day outdoors.

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Photo by Andres Rueda, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Ninety plaques by Alec Peever, each with a rose at its centre, are set into the paths of St James's Park, Green Park, Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, and following them makes a loop of about seven miles that never leaves grass and trees for more than a street crossing. The route passes the palaces and houses of Diana's London - Kensington Palace, Buckingham Palace, Clarence House, St James's Palace and Spencer House - and her fountain and playground along the way, but the point of it is the walk itself: the lake in St James's Park, the Serpentine, the Long Water, the Round Pond, with a bench and a cafe never far off. Opened on 30 June 2000, and there is no need to do it in one go; it can be picked up at any plaque and left at any gate.

Where
St James's Park, Green Park, Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens

The Royal Parks' route map is a PDF, linked below; the plaques are set into the paths and the walk can be joined anywhere along it.

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