The Mall

The Mall is a grand processional route in honour of Queen Victoria, which has seen innumerable historic Royal processions including coronations, state openings of Parliament and state visits. Charles II laid out the Mall in 1662 as a successor to the glorified croquet alley of Pall Mall. The boulevard grew in significance when St James’s Palace became the monarch’s principal home following the destruction by fire of the Palace of Whitehall in 1698. The Mall became a place of public promenade, later giving its name to the American cultural phenomenon the shopping mall, which was originally a store-lined street closed to vehicular traffic.

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