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The Metropolitan Borough of Kensington was a Metropolitan borough in the County of London from 1900 to 1965. ==History== It bordered Chelsea, Fulham, Hammersmith, Paddington, and Westminster. It included Kensington, South Kensington, Earls Court, Notting Hill, Brompton and part of Kensal Green. In 1901 it was granted the status of a royal borough, and therefore from then was also known as the Royal Borough of Kensington.〔"The King has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the title Royal to the Metropolitan Borough of Kensington, and ordaining and declaring that the said Borough shall henceforth be called and styled the Royal Borough of Kensington, and the Council for the Borough The Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the Royal Borough of Kensington." 〕 The status was granted after the death of Queen Victoria, in accordance with her wish (she was born at Kensington Palace in the borough). () In 1965 it was amalgamated with the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea to form the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. A number of street name plaques still bear the designation "Royal Borough of Kensington"; one such sign, in Portobello Road, is seen fleetingly in the Disney film ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks'' (1971). The Town Hall in Kensington High Street was an Italianate building dating from 1880 designed by Robert Walker. It was demolished "in controversial circumstances" in June 1982.〔(Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea website )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Metropolitan Borough of Kensington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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