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Sefton (1963–1993) was a British Army horse who served for 17 years from 1967 to 1984, coming to prominence when he was critically injured in the Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings which, combined, killed seven other horses and eleven people. [2] He recovered sufficiently to return to active service and was subsequently awarded "Horse of ...
View across The Long Water to Kensington Palace. Kensington Gardens, once the private gardens of Kensington Palace, are among the Royal Parks of London.The gardens are shared by the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and sit immediately to the west of Hyde Park, in western central London known as the West End.
The Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings were carried out on 20 July 1982 in London, England. Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated two improvised explosive devices during British military ceremonies in Hyde Park and Regent's Park, both in central London.
In total, 11 military personnel died in the two attacks which occurred within hours of each other in London on July 20 1982.
Hyde Park is a 350-acre (140 ha), historic Grade I-listed urban park in Westminster, Greater London.A Royal Park, it is the largest of the parks and green spaces that form a chain from Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park, past Buckingham Palace to St James's Park.
Hyde Park was opened to the public in 1673 by King Charles II. Richmond Park 955 hectares (2,360 acres) [3] Bushy Park 445 hectares (1,100 acres) [4] The Regent's Park & Primrose Hill 166 hectares (410 acres) [5] Hyde Park 140 hectares (350 acres) [6] Kensington Gardens 107 hectares (260 acres) [7] Greenwich Park 74 hectares (180 acres) [8]
Marble Arch (left) before its relocation to Hyde Park in 1847. It was constructed in 1832–1833, as the ceremonial entrance to the newly rebuilt Buckingham Palace courtyard. Buckingham Palace remained unoccupied, and for the most part unfinished, until it was hurriedly completed upon the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837. Within a few years ...
Regent's Park is the setting of Cruella de Vil's fashion show in Disney's live-action prequel film Cruella (2021). Regent's Park is the setting of the modern headquarters of MI5 for the spy thriller television series Slow Horses (2022). In Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), Pongo is barking the alert from Regent's Park. As stated ...