Kew Palace
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- Best time to go
- April–September
- Budget
- $$
- Accessibility
- limited
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
The smallest of the royal palaces, Kew Palace is a red-brick Dutch-gabled house within the Royal Botanic Gardens, built by a merchant in 1631 and later leased by the royal family. It became a favoured country retreat of George III, and it was here that the king was confined and treated during his bouts of mental illness. The intimate rooms are furnished to evoke Georgian domestic life rather than grand ceremony. Nearby stands the restored royal kitchens, showing eighteenth-century cooking on a modest scale.
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