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Houses of Parliament

May 3, 2008 - London, United Kingdom

Known in medieval times as Thorney Island, the site may have been first-used for a royal residence by Canute the Great (reigned 1016–1035). St Edward the Confessor, the penultimate Saxon monarch of England, built a royal palace on Thorney Island just west of the City of London at about the same time as he built Westminster Abbey (1045–1050).

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