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A view to kill for

WISE as he was, as Winston Churchill puffed on a Romeo y Julieta at his Mountbatten desk in Whitehall’s Old War Office—a Portland-stone, Edwardian Baroque behemoth built in 1906 at the eastern edge of St James’s Park in central London—he could little have imagined the building’s future as one of Europe’s first ultra-luxurious Raffles-branded residences.

Located on the site of the former Palace of Whitehall, the in 1983 to in 2012.

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