The Mall leads from the palace to Trafalgar Square , where the towering Nelson's Column is flanked by huge bronze lions.
The Royal British Legion - which is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year - held a "Silence in the Square" event in Trafalgar Square, featuring musical performances and readings before the two-minute silence.
When the announcement came a friend and I decided to go to London and we duly arrived at Waterloo and walked across the bridge to Trafalgar square after a few hours with the revellers we returned to Wimbledon but decided to return to London later.
Images of Alfred Hitchcock fleeing from the pigeons on Trafalgar Square, George Orwell installing CCTV cameras and the Mayor of London Boris Johnson polishing the shoes of his predecessor Ken Livingstone are among the tongue-in-cheek caricatures that welcome you.
The eerie emptiness of Trafalgar Square is contrasted in the Times with a picture from 24 hours earlier when it was packed solid with cheering, flag waving crowds celebrating news of London's successful Olympic bid.
The Turner Prize winner, known for his commission for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square and his State Britain exhibition at the Tate Britain, said it was an honour.
Sir Norman is the principal architectural adviser on the Trafalgar and Parliament Square plans.
It then moves down Fleet Street, past Aldwych and into The Strand before reaching Trafalgar Square, where there will be a big screen at the bottom of Nelson's Column showing proceedings with live commentary.
Later this year Trafalgar One, a development of five apartments, will become the only residential address on Trafalgar Square, with views of landmarks like Nelson's Column and the National Gallery.
The tens of thousands gathered in Trafalgar Square cheered highlights of the exhilarating summer series and interviews with each member of the victorious squad before a rendition of 'Jerusalem' rounded the presentation off.
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Her sculpture Monument was commissioned for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2001.
Inspiration for the plinth came from the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London.
The parade is set to start at around 1345BST on Piccadilly and will end up on the north terrace of Trafalgar Square.
"It's nice that he is there - he's my coach, " he said at England's O2 Scrum on the Beach event at Trafalgar Square.
She sat chained in a van outside Scotland Yard all one Christmas, in 1974, while a friend blew the lights on the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square.
The 800-seat venue, close to Trafalgar Square, opened in 1882 as the Royal Avenue Theatre, becoming the Playhouse 25 years later.
The street names of Spring Gardens (near Trafalgar Square) and Millbank (where the Abbey's mill once stood) echo Westminster's watery past.
At the top is a new restaurant which offers visitors one of the greatest panoramas of London, past the pepperpot dome of the National Gallery, over Lord Nelson's shoulder in Trafalgar Square and on to the Palace of Westminster.
The cast will be performing in an arena as big as Trafalgar Square at heights of 145ft - the height of Nelson's Column.
The memorial service took place at St Martin-in-the-Fields, near Trafalgar Square in central London.
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They include a vigil at Whitehall and a protest walk from Trafalgar Square to the Foreign Office.
Essex-born Mark Wallinger is best known for his sculpture for the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
Several hundred anti-war demonstrators have also marched to a rally in Trafalgar Square from the US Embassy in central London.
The work is presented on the empty Fourth Plinth of Trafalgar Square and is a wry response to a square that is dominated by a male, disabled figure.
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The pair became suspicious when they were photographed at the planned rendezvous with a reporter in Trafalgar Square, central London, and fled without payment.
Tens of thousands of viewers might then troop off to Trafalgar Square to see these works in the flesh, so to speak.
Let the foxes exercise their right to take refuge in Trafalgar Square.
This, he said, was "unlike the placing of the very fine equestrian statue of Charles I in Trafalgar Square, which, in order to look at closely and appreciate in detail, you have to risk your life in crossing a maze of traffic".
He drove down an empty Piccadilly, crossed Trafalgar Square in silence, and parked outside the unguarded Buckingham Palace.
He also cited public events like the open air opera held in Covent Garden piazza and Trafalgar Square.
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