{{Short description|Street in Knightsbridge, London}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}} {{Use British English|date=June 2015}} thumbnail|Beauchamp Place, 2008 thumb|Beauchamp Place, 1977
'''Beauchamp Place''' (pronounced "Beecham Place") is a fashionable shopping street in the Knightsbridge district of London. Previously known as Grove Place until 1885, it has since evolved into a well-known shopping street.
It was once better known for its brothels and lodging houses, but since the Edwardian era, antique shops and high-end fashion boutiques have dominated the street.<ref name="Starren">{{cite book|last1=Starren|first1=Carolyn|title=The Kensington book|date=2006|publisher=Historical Publications|location=London|isbn=9781905286164|page=15}}<!--|accessdate=19 February 2016--></ref>
Beauchamp Place originally referred to a 16th-century mansion belonging to the Seymour family, whose titles included Viscount Beauchamp. It belonged to Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp, who became the Earl of Hertford and was the son of a Lord Protector of England.<ref>Melissa Franklin Harkrider, ''Women, Reform and Community in Early Modern England'', p. 47</ref>
The Italian restaurant San Lorenzo was situated at No. 22 between 1963 and its closure in 2022.<ref name="Times12">{{cite news|title=Mara Berni|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0504323295/TTDA?|accessdate=23 October 2025|work=The Times|issue=70547|date=14 April 2012|page=81}}</ref> It attracted many celebrities and influential people and became closely associated with Diana, Princess of Wales.<ref name=ST22>{{cite news|last=Mills|first=Simon|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-family/article/diana-liz-hurley-david-bowie-and-the-wild-nights-at-san-lorenzo-gv7pwv8kh|archive-url=https://archive.today/20241015151811/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-family/article/diana-liz-hurley-david-bowie-and-the-wild-nights-at-san-lorenzo-gv7pwv8kh|title=Diana, Liz and the wildest nights at San Lorenzo; During its heyday, it was the place to be seen. It's the end of an era, says Simon Mills.|date=15 June 2022|work=The Times|accessdate=15 October 2024|archivedate=15 October 2024}}</ref> Paparazzi photographers would regularly wait on Beauchamp Place to photograph the diners.<ref name=ST22/>
==See also== *List of eponymous roads in London
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.beauchamp-place.com/ The Beauchamp Place Association] * {{Commons category-inline|Beauchamp Place}}
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Category:Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Category:Houses in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Category:Tudor England + Category:Knightsbridge Category:Shopping streets in London
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