Wardrobe Place, EC4V

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This was the site of the Royal Wardrobe, a house bought by Edward III in 1359, to store the monarch’s ceremonial robes or as it was put the “cloaths of state, beds, hangings and other necessaries”. The property had previously belonged to Sir John Beauchamp. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666.

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