Queen Elizabeth II: The mystery of the house where the 'brightly colored and beautiful haired' Queen of Britain was born

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Where is the house where the Queen was born? Are tourists visiting the UK looking for the wrong place? And are the claims that the house was damaged during the war true?

London (News Update) The Queen was born on April 21, 1926 at 17 May, in the Mayor's area of London, at Browton Street. It was neither a palace, nor a large manor, not even a hospital, but a house built on a busy London street, the walls of which were attached to adjoining houses.

The Queen's parents moved here a few weeks before her birth and it was owned by her Scottish grandparents, Earl and the Counts of Strathmore.

"This is an indication that the regal family was not extremely prosperous back then," said illustrious antiquarian Robert Lacey.

It is important to remember that she was not born to be a queen at that time because she was the youngest son of a king and was less likely to sit on the throne.

Was the house bombed?

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The house where the queen was born no longer exists, and online claims have surfaced that the house was damaged by air strikes during World War II.

For instance, Wikipedia says that "the house was harmed by the bombarding and was subsequently obliterated."

In any case, reports in the British Library and different files show that the eighteenth century house was really obliterated some time before World War II.

In fact, it was the property developers who proved more heartless than the air strikes and demolished the Queen's first house.

In 1937, a man wearing a frock coat and top hat began tearing down adjoining houses at the corner of 17, Broughton Street and Berkeley Square.

Initially, there were plans to build a hotel for the Canadian Pacific Railway on the site, but later it was decided to build large offices and a retail complex here.

It was a time when people had no emotional attachment to the heritage and historical significance of architecture. The companies that demolished the buildings without any remorse piled on the ground the houses built here, which in a report of that time was named as '20 most historic houses in London'.

A wartime painter, Sir Moirhead Bone, depicts the demolition of the front of these magnificent buildings at the hands of laborers.

Also, in a 1939 surveyor's note in the London Metropolitan Archives, 17, Broton Street's file was closed with the confirmation that the old house had been demolished and that 'his land is now part of the plot which But Berkeley Square House has been built.

The firm, Austria, which now manages Berkeley Square House, says the building was owned by the Air Ministry during World War II.