U.S. officials requested use of Kensington Palace for embassy

LONDON, Aug. 16 — British royal officials rejected a request from American diplomats to move the U.S. Embassy in London into Kensington Palace, the former home of Princess Diana, a newspaper reported Sunday.

The Sunday Telegraph said American officials approached representatives of Queen Elizabeth II about using the palace because they considered the embassy's current location in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, to be vulnerable to a terrorist attack.

Both sites are in central London but the palace, located in Kensington Gardens, is set well back from the street and can only be approached by a guarded cul-de-sac.

http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusintl/ap08-16-162239.asp?reg=europe&vts=81620031634

Aw George, why not Buckingham Palace while you're at it?

perhaps they could move it to Finsbury Park.

Can you see Ann Coulter winning the bidding for a night in Diana's bedroom?

easy to get close to. It's part of the park. There are people all over the place. It would take nothing for someone to whip off the street and drive right up, over the lawn to it before anyone could stop them. Hell, I was walking around in a garden right in the back and could almost touch the walls. In fact if we did this, we would put all those people and the children that walk and play in this major park in peril. It would end up shutting down this whole area that is such a part of the London scene. We don't want much, do we?? Tell them to go move it behind the gates that shut you off from going down Downing Street. They could reside right across from #10 and thus not have far to go to fetch their poodle.

maybe this is a 'threat is greater than the execution', shot across the bows, a sort of coded diplomatic message meaning in effect "if you even think about pulling out of the coalition, we will close down our embassy in britain, 'for security reasons of course', with all the detrimental economic consequences following afterwards".

This story seems to be in the Telegraph, with Perle on the board of directors.

I've seen the u.s. embassy in London, it's a 10-15 story office block (maybe bigger) I would be interested to know how big Kennsington Palace is.

If this was a veiled threat that we would remove our embassy from London, just think about the next possible electricity blackout. Who owned the grid that failed?

Perhaps this is a reason we shouldn't allow private (and foreign) ownership of our vital natural resources. (I'm not saying electricity is a natural resource, but it comes from Niagara, etc., which are natural resources.)

Because if "we" got it for an embassy building, the first thing "we" would do is make an enormous perimeter around it for "our" safety and the public be damned! Only the sort of people who can go to the WH now would be able to get in. You know, the big donors and the media whores who shill the loudest for these secretive criminals.

:evilgrin:

Indeed, what a perfect place. And, perhaps, the Brits might want to re-locate Tony to the same "bed and breakfast" spa. It's where they all belong.

They'd have to hide the Crown Jewels from the BFEE!

:D

at the Vatican...

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