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Show Kensington Gardens. Kensington gardens, London, England, Eng-land, were at first only I!0 ncres In extent, ex-tent, but have been several times enlarged, en-larged, and now have an area of 210 acres. The gardens are traversed by walks and ornamented with rows nnd clumps of noble trees. Near tho western west-ern border of tho gardens, or park, for such they are, stnnds Kensington pnl-ace, pnl-ace, an edifice of brick orlglnnlly the seat of Heueage Finch, enrl of Nottingham Notting-ham and lord chancellor of England. The palace was afterwnrds bought by King Willlnm II, who enlarged It under un-der the supervision of Christopher Wren, the architect of St. Paul's cathedral. cathe-dral. William and his consort, Mary, died In Kensington palaco and thero died Queen Anno and King 'George M. It was tho blrthplaco of Queen- Victoria. Vic-toria. It has not been a ' royal residence resi-dence sluco 1700. y .$ . . |