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Belgravia

American  
[bel-grey-vee-uh] / bɛlˈgreɪ vi ə /

noun

  1. a fashionable district in London, England, adjoining Hyde Park.


Belgravia British  
/ bɛlˈɡreɪvɪə /

noun

  1. a fashionable residential district of W central London, around Belgrave Square

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  • Belgravian adjective

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She recently sold her Belgravia flat, which she purchased for £4.2m.

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Andrew has confirmed he travelled on Epstein's private jet, stayed at his private island, stayed at his Palm Beach mansion, and visited Ghislaine Maxwell's home at Belgravia in London.

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Quaker, 15, was one of five Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment horses spooked when rubble was dropped through a plastic tunnel while they were on an exercise in Belgravia on 24 April last year.

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But for Belgravia's gilded set, being told to leave the rarefied streets and return to a supposedly less desirable part of the English capital cuts deep.

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Mckenzie Dicicco, 22, of Belgravia Gardens, Middlesbrough, who has played at Thornaby, Northallerton and Pickering football clubs, appeared at Leeds Crown Court earlier charged with murder and affray.

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