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Portman Square is a garden square in Marylebone, central London, surrounded by townhouses. It was specifically for private housing let on long leases having a ground rent by the Portman Estate, which owns the private communal gardens. It marks the western end of Wigmore Street, which connects it to Cavendish Square to the east.
The square in 1813
Side-view of the south side in 2008, displaying odd traffic system replaced c. 2013
The Dining Room of No. 20 in 1913
Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife,, styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879 and known as the Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a Scottish nobleman and peer who married Princess Louise, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
Commemorating the wedding of Princess Louise of Wales and the then-Earl of Fife, from an 1889 issue of Pen and Pencil, an illustrated weekly newspaper
Braemar, Mar Lodge Estate, St Ninian's Chapel - Grave of the 1st Duke of Fife (1849–1912)
Fife Arms Hotel, Braemar: Arms of the Duke and Duchess of Fife