• Learn which king had six wives • Hear Stories about a 19th-century fashionista who gambled all his money • Discover why George IV asked for brandy on his wedding night • Hear for what Oskar Wilde was imprisoned • Discover what is similar between Mick Jagger and Charles II? (illegitimate children) • How many mistresses had Charles II?
Meet your Guide at the Piccadilly Arcade, in front of the Beau Brummel Statue. On this tour, you will discover stories about men who gained some notoriety in their time. Start your journey from stories about the most stylish fashionista George “Beau” Brummel and why it took him 5 hours to dress every morning.
Afterwards, you will follow your Guide to St James’s Palace, which was built by Henry VIII, the King who had six wives and beheaded 2 of them. You will hear everything about life at the Tudor court and how courtiers feared the King.
Walk through the lovely St James’s park amid birdsongs and wild-rustling trees before you reach Buckingham Palace, the only working Palace in the World. Today it is a place where Queen resided, but before Queen Victoria, it was just an additional estate which was expanded by George IV. Discover why George IV became unpopular and if he genuinely poisoned his wife?
You will make your own way to the meeting points