Kensington Gardens are home to Kensington Palace, where Queen Victoria was born and lived until she became queen. The Gardens were opened to the public in 1841 and are now among the Royal Parks of London. The Gardens are in west-central London, just west of Hyde Park.
In Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" (1923), Mrs. Dalloway sees the Victoria Memorial which brings to mind the Gardens: "remembering Kensington Gardens and the old lady in horn spectacles and being told by Nanny to stop dead still and bow to the Queen." This suggests that Mrs. Dalloway had meet the Queen as a child, and with reference to her and her husband meeting with the Queen as adults suggest that she occupies a high social class.
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