Qualla: St James's Square https://qualla.com/st-james-s-square en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/st-james-s-square-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: St James's Square https://qualla.com/st-james-s-square St James's Square: Introduction https://qualla.com/st-james-s-square/ Photo credit Public domain. Three British Prime Ministers lived at Number 10. Not Downing Street—St James's Square. A blue plaque on the building states it plainly: William Pitt, Earl of Derby, William Ewart Gladstone. One address, three men who shaped an empire. That kind of density—of power, of history, of consequence—is what makes St James's Square unlike any other patch of London turf.

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/st-james-s-square-wp/gcpv-st-jamess-square-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full St James's Square: A Duke's Gamble https://qualla.com/st-james-s-square/ Photo credit Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0. The square's story begins with a real estate bet. In 1662, Charles II extended a lease over 45 acres of Pall Mall Field to Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans, who immediately set about creating something extraordinary. The location had one obvious advantage: it sat conveniently ...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/st-james-s-square-wp/gcpv-st-jamess-square-a-dukes-gamble.mp3 0:06 2 full St James's Square: Power Behind Closed Doors https://qualla.com/st-james-s-square/ Photo credit Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0. What happened inside these houses shaped the world. At Number 31—Norfolk House, a neo-Georgian replacement for the Duke of Norfolk's original mansion, demolished in 1938—the Allied forces planned Operation Torch and Operation Overlord, the landings that turned the tide of the Sec...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/st-james-s-square-wp/gcpv-st-jamess-square-power-behind-closed-doors.mp3 0:06 3 full St James's Square: Tragedy on a Tuesday https://qualla.com/st-james-s-square/ Photo credit Public domain. On 17 April 1984, the square's long diplomatic history turned violent. Number 5—then serving as Libya's People's Bureau—became the scene of a shooting that shocked Britain. During a protest outside the building, shots were fired from a window inside, killing Police Constable Yvon...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/st-james-s-square-wp/gcpv-st-jamess-square-tragedy-on-a-tuesday.mp3 0:06 4 full St James's Square: The Garden at the Centre https://qualla.com/st-james-s-square/ Photo credit Philippe Cendron, CC BY-SA 4.0. At the heart of the square sits a walled garden, opened to the public on weekdays, overseen since 1726 by the St James's Square Trust—the earliest statute ever passed to regulate a London square, and the only one still operating unamended. An equestrian statue of William III, ere...

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