Kensington and Chelsea

Queen with her husband, William III, from 1689. That year they bought the house that became Kensington Palace. The Queen's Gallery, built in 1693, was designed as a place for her 'simple pastimes such as walking, reading, and needlework'. She died at Kensington Palace in 1694.

An Orangery was built for her at Kensington Palace in 1704. She died at Kensington Palace on 1 August 1714.

An 1851 book by Peter Cunningham says the idea for the Royal Hospital Chelsea came from her. Her portrait was used as the sign of a pub in Grosvenor Row.

Born Alexandrina Victoria at Kensington Palace on 24 May 1819, and christened in its Cupola Room the next month. She lived there until she became queen in 1837.

A poet and novelist, known by her initials, L.E.L. She was born in Chelsea in 1802.

Born Princess Victoria Mary of Teck at Kensington Palace, soon after her family moved there. Later she helped open the palace's State Apartments as a temporary home for the London Museum, from 1911 to 1914.

A figure skater, born in Kensington in 1881. In 1902 she became the first woman to compete at the World Figure Skating Championships, and in 1908 she became Olympic champion.

A chemist and X-ray crystallographer, born at 50 Chepstow Villas, Notting Hill, in 1920. Her work was central to understanding the structure of DNA.

In March 2009 the first women in the Royal Hospital Chelsea's 317-year history became In-Pensioners: Winifred Phillips, who had trained as a nurse and joined the Women's Royal Army Corps in 1949, and Dorothy Hughes, who joined the British Army in 1941, aged 18.