{"id":5963,"date":"2017-04-12T14:11:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2017-04-12T15:16:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:16:55","slug":"marlborough-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5963","title":{"rendered":"MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, PALL MALL, LONDON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today, April 12, is the Duke of Edinburgh&#8217;s \u00a0President&#8217;s Council Forum to be held at Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marlborough House is almost 300 years old and has the status of a Royal Palace. It has been occupied over the years by some five Dukes and Duchesses of Marlborough, three Dowager Queens of the United Kingdom, three Princes of Wales who later became Kings of the United Kingdom and Prince Leopold, who became King of the Belgians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sir Christopher Wren, the Surveyor of the Queen\u2019s Work was commissioned in 1709 to draw up the plans for Marlborough House, which was completed in 1711.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marlborough House is today the home of the Commonwealth Secretariat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MARLBOROUGH-HOUSE-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5964\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MARLBOROUGH-HOUSE-3.jpg\" alt=\"MARLBOROUGH HOUSE-3\" width=\"3614\" height=\"2715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MARLBOROUGH-HOUSE-3.jpg 3614w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MARLBOROUGH-HOUSE-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MARLBOROUGH-HOUSE-3-1024x769.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3614px) 100vw, 3614px\" \/><\/a><strong>MARLBOROUGH HOUSE IN THE MORNING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Duke of Edinburgh&#8217;s President&#8217;s Council Forum organizer&#8217;s have decided to use the above image for \u00a0their conference brochure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MARLBOROUGH-HOUSE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5965\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MARLBOROUGH-HOUSE.jpg\" alt=\"MARLBOROUGH HOUSE\" width=\"604\" height=\"985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MARLBOROUGH-HOUSE.jpg 604w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MARLBOROUGH-HOUSE-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Congrats to all lucky attendees. Hope you have a great conference!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, April 12, is the Duke of Edinburgh&#8217;s \u00a0President&#8217;s Council Forum to be held at Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London. Marlborough House is almost 300 years old and has the status of a Royal Palace. It has been occupied over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5963\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-people","category-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5972,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions\/5972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}