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{{Short description|Street in South Kensington, London, England}}
{{Other uses|Queensgate (disambiguation){{!}}Queensgate}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2015}}
[[File:Queen's Gate street in London, spring 2013 (3).JPG|thumb|Buildings in the street.]]
[[File:Queen's Gate street sign.jpg|thumb|right|Street sign]]
'''Queen's Gate''' is a street in [[South Kensington]], London, England. It runs south from [[Kensington Gardens]]' Queen's Gate (the edge of which gardens are here followed by [[Kensington Road]]) to [[Old Brompton Road]], intersecting [[Cromwell Road]].

The street is mostly in the [[Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea]], but part of the east side is in the [[City of Westminster]]. The municipal boundary is the street centre between Kensington Road and [[Imperial College Road]].

==History==
The street was built on land purchased by the Royal Commissioners for [[the Great Exhibition]] under an agreement dated August 1855 with Henry Browne Alexander, whose family owned the land through which the road was to pass, and William Jackson, a building speculator. The road was originally known as '''Albert's Road''', but was officially changed to Queen's Gate in 1859.<ref>{{cite book|author1=[[Ben Weinreb|Weinreb, Ben]] |author2=[[Christopher Hibbert|Hibbert, Christopher]] |title=[[The London Encyclopaedia]] |edition=reprint |year=1992 |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] |page=650}}</ref>

==Local Politics==
Queen's Gate is also a three-councillor [[wards (UK)|ward]] of [[Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea]] with a population of 9,847 (2011 Census). The local Member of Parliament since 2019 has been [[Felicity Buchan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13688902&c=SW7+5NR&d=14&e=62&g=6331451&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=0&s=1476544446630&enc=1|title=Kensington and Chelsea Ward population 2011|access-date=15 October 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics}}</ref>
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  |candidate  = Sheila McGuirk
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  |candidate  = Noel McNamara
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  |party      = Labour Party (UK)
  |candidate  = Carmen Callil
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  |candidate  = Emma Southby
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  |candidate  = Soonu Engineer
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  |candidate  = Sam Mackover
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  |party      = Conservative Party (UK)
  |candidate  = Daniel Moylan
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  |party      = Conservative Party (UK)
  |candidate  = Matthew Palmer
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  |party      = Labour Party (UK)
  |candidate  = Annabelle Louvros
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  |party      = Liberal Democrats (UK)
  |candidate  = Philippa Manasseh
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  |party      = Liberal Democrats (UK)
  |candidate  = Barry Brown
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  |party      = Labour Party (UK)
  |candidate  = Soonu Engineer
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  |party      = Labour Party (UK)
  |candidate  = Bob Mingay
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==Places of interest==
[[File:Queen's Gate, a major southern gate of Kensington Gardens, London spring 2013 (12).JPG|thumb|The Queen's Gate of Kensington Gardens]]
At the northern end of the road, near the actual gate to [[Kensington Gardens]], is an [[equestrian statue]] of Field Marshal [[Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala]], erected in 1920.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1492584&sort=4&search=all&criteria=north%20carlton&rational=q&recordsperpage=60|title=Statue of Robert Cornelis Napier, Baron Napier of Magdala|publisher=Pastscape|access-date=24 November 2013}}</ref>

From north to south, places of interest visible on the east side of Queen's Gate include the [[Royal Albert Hall]],<ref>{{cite web| title=The Building| url=http://www.royalalberthall.com/uploadedFiles/About_The_Hall/assets/History_of_the_Royal_Albert_Hall.pdf| publisher=Royal Albert Hall| access-date=17 June 2011| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110626222518/http://www.royalalberthall.com/uploadedFiles/About_The_Hall/assets/History_of_the_Royal_Albert_Hall.pdf| archive-date=26 June 2011| df=dmy-all}}</ref> the Huxley Building of [[Imperial College London]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events-and-hospitality/venues/huxley-building/|title=Huxley Building |publisher=Imperial College London|access-date=13 December 2019}}</ref> the [[Dana Library and Research Centre]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Dana Library and Research Centre|url=http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/new_galleries/research_centre.aspx|website=www.sciencemuseum.org.uk|access-date=24 November 2016}}</ref> and the [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/access-at-south-kensington.html|title=Access at South Kensington|publisher=Natural History Museum|access-date=13 December 2019}}</ref> [[Kensington Park School]] is just south of the [[Queen's Gate Gardens]], opposite the museum.<ref>{{cite web |title=Location |url=https://www.kps.co.uk/location |website=www.kps.co.uk |access-date=1 July 2021}}</ref> The road also lends its name to a [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private]] girls' school, [[Queen's Gate School]], which is situated on the road.<ref>[http://goodschoolsguide.co.uk/school/queens-gate-school.html Queen's Gate School] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427075334/http://goodschoolsguide.co.uk/school/queens-gate-school.html |date=27 April 2009 }} on [[Good Schools Guide]]</ref> On the west side is [[Baden-Powell House]].<ref name="wood">{{cite book | last = Wood | first = Edward | title = The story of B.-P.'s House|publisher = [[The Scout Association]] |date=April 1971 | location = London | isbn = 0-85165-016-3}}</ref>

The [[100 Queen's Gate Hotel London]], a historical building dating back to 1870, is also situated there.

[[File:St Augustine of Canterbury parish church.jpg|thumb|upright|St Augustine's, Queen's Gate, London.]]
The only church is [[St Augustine's, Queen's Gate|St Augustine's of Canterbury]] ([[Church of England]]).<ref>{{NHLE|desc=Church of St Augustine|num=1226161|access-date=8 November 2013}}</ref>

Five countries have embassies or high commissions in Queen's Gate: the [[Embassy of Iraq, London|Embassy of Iraq]] is at no. 21, the [[High Commission of Bangladesh, London|Bangladeshi High Commission]] at No. 28, the Royal [[Embassy of Thailand, London|Embassy of Thailand]] is at Nos. 29–30, the [[Embassy of Oman, London|Embassy of Oman]] is at No. 167, and the [[Embassy of Bulgaria, London|Bulgarian Embassy]] is at Nos. 186–188.<ref>{{cite news | url= https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263519/LDL_December_2013.pdf | title=The London Diplomatic List | date=14 December 2013}}</ref>

The [[MI5|Security Service]] (MI5) was based at 73-75 Queen's Gate from 1919 to 1929.<ref>{{cite book|last=Andrew|first=Christopher|title=The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5|page=[https://archive.org/details/defenceofrealmau0000andr/page/117 117]|publisher=Allen Lane|year=2009|isbn=978-0-713-99885-6|url=https://archive.org/details/defenceofrealmau0000andr/page/117}}</ref>

The nearest tube stations are [[South Kensington tube station|South Kensington]] and [[Gloucester Road tube station|Gloucester Road]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/standard-tube-map.pdf |title=Tube map |publisher=[[Transport for London]] |access-date=29 April 2010}}</ref>

==Notable people==
*[[Benny Hill]], comedian and actor (d. 1992)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.memorialmatters.com/memorials.php?page=Alfred-Hill&section=bio|title=Tribute to Alfred Hawthorne Hill on MemorialMatters.com|work=memorialmatters.com|access-date=5 July 2015}}</ref>
*[[Dennis Gabor]], physicist, 1971 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (d. 1979)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.gov-news.org/gov/uk/news/blue_plaque_for_dennis_gabor_inventor_of/63353.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202225540/http://www.gov-news.org/gov/uk/news/blue_plaque_for_dennis_gabor_inventor_of/63353.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=2 December 2013|title=Blue Plaque for Dennis Gabor, inventor of Holograms|publisher=Government News|date=1 June 2006|access-date=23 November 2013}}</ref>
*[[Gerald Hocken Knight]], compositor; organist of St Augustine's church, 1931-37 (d. 1979)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0DYZCgAAQBAJ&q=Gerald+Hocken+Knight+st+augustine&pg=PA114|title=Admissions to Peterhouse October 1911 - December 1930|first= E.|last= Ansell|page=114|year=1939|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107553897}}</ref>
*[[Gilbert Ledward]], sculptor (d. 1960)<ref>'Ledward, Gilbert', in ''[[Who's Who (UK)|Who Was Who 1951–1960]]'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1984 reprint, {{ISBN|0-7136-2598-8}})</ref>
*[[E. Beresford Chancellor]], author known for his works on the history of London, died at no. 31 (d. 1937)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar/GetImgSrc?filePath=%2F1937%2FC%2F000730_champion_1937.Png |year=1937 |title=Probate Calendar|page=729|access-date=13 December 2019}}</ref>
*Sir [[Richard Baggallay]], barrister, MP then Lord Justice of Appeal, of no. 55 (d. 1888)<ref>{{cite web|title='Domestic Buildings after 1851: The occupants', in Survey of London: Volume 38, South Kensington Museums Area, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1975)|pages= 317–324|publisher=British History Online |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol38/pp317-324 |access-date= 13 December 2019}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.bhclondon.org.uk/ Bangladeshi High Commission website]
* [http://www.thaiembassyuk.org.uk/ Royal Thai Embassy website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130801082805/http://www.omanembassy.org.uk/ Omani Embassy website]
* [http://www.bulgarianembassy-london.org/ Bulgarian Embassy website]

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