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Lancaster House

The Buckingham Palace of The Crown: the state rooms, the staircase and the Queen's office were filmed here, round the corner from the real thing.

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Built for the Duke of York in 1825 and now the Foreign Office's house for summits and treaties, Lancaster House has a Louis XIV staircase hall so grand that Victoria, arriving from the palace, is supposed to have said she had come from her house to a palace. It played Buckingham Palace through The Crown - the audiences with prime ministers, the corridors, the Queen at her desk - as it had in The King's Speech, and Churchill gave the coronation banquet here for the real Queen in 1953. Not open, but the front and the yard are a few steps from the Mall, and it appears on Open House some Septembers.

Where
Stable Yard, St James's, SW1A 1BB
Nearest station
Green Park · 5 min walk

Not open to the public; the front is on Stable Yard Road, off the Mall

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