ROYAL ALBERT HALL, Royal Albert Hall

Hi, I'm James, your personal guide. Together with MyWoWo, I'd like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world.

Today I'll accompany you through Royal Albert Hall and Kensington.

Royal Albert Hall is one of the most famous concert halls in the world!

The neighborhood you are now in, Kensington and Chelsea, is also called the "Royal Borough" and occupies the west side of central London, incorporating several ancient villages that have become elegant residential areas. Queen Victoria and even more so her spouse Albert focused on enhancing the Kensington area as a "new city" of culture and science, and it had been earmarked to house several collections of the Universal Exhibition of 1851. The neighborhood was even renamed "Albertopolis" in honor of its founder. Unfortunately, Albert died at the young age of 42 and never got to see his refined utopia take form: a great concert hall with an unmistakable shape that left its mark on the entire neighborhood; it is located right along the edge of London's largest and most popular urban parks....