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# Savoy Court Standing before this elegant courtyard, you're standing where two pivotal figures in English history reshaped the very structure of power itself. Simon de Montfort, during his months residing in the Palace of the Savoy, gave substance to revolutionary ideals—this was where the archite...

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In the Palace of the Savoy lived for many months Simon de Montfort, founder of the House of Commons. This also was the home of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, who lived here in princely luxury from 1362 to 1381