Grosvenor Estate

But coming back to the fabric of London a bit, we can see more development of these aristocratic estates.

We've got Hanover Square, which had already been started in our last episode, and St George's, Hanover Square, um, the church, and then also over on the sort of northwest of there, we've got the Grosvenor estate beginning to be developed.

And the great grandees and landowners realizing that, as the Bedford estate had, that, that there is money to be made by developing these areas.

In speculative developments, which where they're the, the lease owner-

I mean, obviously the Whigs wanted to make it very clear that 1688, Glorious Revolution, Hanoverian succession, everything's sorted out.

And to some extent it was because when George II became king, it was the first time in three reigns, in many people's living memory, that one king had simply succeeded, a Prince of Wales had succeeded the king, um, in an orderly manner.

But on the other hand, the ramifications of 1688, well, they went to arguably go on to the present day, but Hanover Square, named obviously for the House of Hanover and all those big houses taken by the Whigs, whereas the Grosvenor Estate, Cavendish Square and so on, which was much slower to develop, but taken by the Tories.

Yeah.