Kensington Palace wedding map print

In the summer of 1689 William III and Mary II paid £20,000 for what was then Nottingham House and set Sir Christopher Wren to work enlarging it. Queen Anne added the Orangery in 1704, and under George I a little-known painter called William Kent decorated the state rooms, finishing the King's Staircase with 45 figures from the Georgian court.

On 24 May 1819 a princess named Alexandrina Victoria was born in rooms on the south-east corner of the palace, and she grew up there under the strict regime her mother devised. More than a century and a half later it became the London home of Diana, Princess of Wales, and after her death in 1997 over a million bouquets were laid at its gates.

The artwork takes in the western half of the gardens that Henry Wise and Charles Bridgeman began laying out under Queen Anne, with the Round Pond just east of the palace among the lawns and avenues. Busy roads cross the top and the foot of the map, and on the west the streets of Kensington close in around the place where your guests gathered.