The downsizing started with her Kensington Palace staff, which she reduced to cleaner, cook, and dresser.
London is also home to several huge single-family homes, including the massive mansions lining Kensington Palace Gardens.
She had lived at Kensington Palace since 1995, when she left her home at Barnwell Manor in Northamptonshire.
Her body is to remain in a private chapel at Kensington Palace while funeral arrangements are being made.
The best hope is Wills, a joint-venture product between the St James's Palace and (now-defunct) Kensington Palace subsidiaries.
The couple's main residence is expected to be an apartment in Kensington Palace.
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She initially assumed autism, but found more clues in this portrait of Peter, by court painter William Kent, that hangs in Kensington Palace.
The following year - aged about 12 - he was brought to London by George I where he became a "human pet" at Kensington Palace.
The Duchess, who is 12 weeks pregnant, was ordered to rest at home at Kensington Palace after she left King Edward VII's Hospital on 6 December.
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Kensington Palace was home to both the princes when they were being brought up by their mother Diana, the Princess of Wales, who lived there from 1981 until her death in 1997.
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He recently moved out of his father's residence, Clarence House -- where he had a bedroom and study -- into a small flat at Kensington Palace where his brother and sister-in-law live.
He created the work from a series of photographs taken during two sittings, at Kensington Palace in London and at his studio in South West England, in May and June last year.
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The same could have been said, though, about Sir Christopher Wren, whose 51 churches, and landmarks like Kensington Palace and Greenwich Naval Hospital, dominated the city after the Great Fire of London.
William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, currently live in Nottingham Cottage, in the grounds of Kensington Palace, but will move into a renovated apartment in the main building in 2013.
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Botmeh, who was released from prison in 2008, was found guilty of involvement in two car bombs set off in July 1994, one of which went off outside the embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens.
After the duchess spent three days being treated for the condition in King Edward VII's Hospital in central London, she was ordered by doctors to have a period of rest at home at Kensington Palace.
Prince Harry, who lives nearby at Kensington Palace, recently played a game on a beach in Rio de Janeiro and was quoted by the British press afterward as saying he had tickets to watch a match in London.
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However, the hearing also learned the princess had on occasions given away clothes herself, to members of her family members of her family at informal events at Kensington Palace which Mrs Shand Kydd, smilingly, termed "upmarket car boot sales".
They were a black velvet and beaded gown worn for a Vanity Fair photo shoot by Mario Testino at Kensington Palace in 1997, and a burgundy crushed velvet gown the princess wore to the film premiere of "Back to the Future" in 1985.
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