St James's Park

A planned memorial to Queen Elizabeth II is to be built in St James's Park in central London. Queen Elizabeth II died in September 2022 and the plans for the memorial were announced shortly before the second anniversary of her death in 2024. It will involve a statue of the Queen in a new space named Queen Elizabeth II Place at Marlborough Gate, and a new Prince Philip Gate on Birdcage Walk, with a statue of the Queen and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh together. The location has been chosen for its proximity to Buckingham Palace and The Mall and to facilitate the large numbers of visitors and tourists that the area is associated with. A contest for the statue design was launched in late 2024. The shortlist of design teams for the memorial was announced in February 2025. The design team led by Foster + Partners was announced as the winner on 24 June 2025. The final design will be announced in the spring of 2026 to coincide with the centenary of Elizabeth's birth.

The London 10,000 is an annual road running event over 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) which takes place in late May in London, United Kingdom. Established in 2008, the race goes through the roads of St. James's Park and finishes on the mall by Buckingham Palace. VitalityHealth took over sponsorship in 2016 from the original sponsor BUPA.It has become one of the most popular mass participation 10k runs in the United Kingdom. In 2008, over 12,500 runners took part, with 8372 recorded finishers for the 2009 event. It is managed by the same organisers as the London Marathon.Mo Farah is a seven-time winner of the men's race and his course record of 27:44 minutes in 2010 was ratified as the British record for the 10K road distance. The women's record of 31:06 minutes was also set in 2010, by Kenya's Mary Keitany.

The Boy is a Grade II listed drinking fountain with sculpture by Charles Henry Mabey in St James's Park, London, across Birdcage Walk from Queen Anne's Gate. The fountain has a marble sculpture of a boy (sometimes called a "Greek boy") with a pitcher and holding a scallop shell; he is naked except for his breeches. The figure is set on a granite pedestal which has marble panels on three sides. On the panels are stylised dolphin heads, which would originally have spouted water into the projecting conch shells, against a background of bullrushes. The fountain was installed in 1863 by the Office of Works, under William Cowper as First Commissioner of Works; another example of improvements the office was carrying out at the same time is Alexander Munro's Boy and Dolphin fountain in Hyde Park. The sculptor of The Boy was Charles Henry Mabey, working under Robert Jackson. There are reports of damage to the sculpture in 1905, 1906 and 1925, and the current head, right arm, left hand and both big toes are replacements made in the late 20th century. The most recent unveiling of the repaired sculpture was on 22 December 1993 by Douglas Hurd. Following plans for the Memorial to Elizabeth II which will use the site, The Boy is to be moved to the western end of the park.

Birdcage Walk is a street in the City of Westminster in London. It runs east–west as a continuation of Great George Street, from the crossroads with Horse Guards Road and Storey's Gate, with the Treasury building and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on the northeast corner, to a junction with Buckingham Gate, at the southeast corner of Buckingham Palace. St. James's Park lies to the north, whilst to the south are the backs of buildings on Old Queen Street, Queen Anne's Gate and Petty France, and, at the western end, the Wellington Barracks of the Brigade of Guards.

The Mall () is a road in the City of Westminster, central London, between Buckingham Palace at its western end and Trafalgar Square via Admiralty Arch to the east. Near the east end at Trafalgar Square and Whitehall it is met by Horse Guards Road and Spring Gardens where the Metropolitan Board of Works and London County Council were once based. It is closed to traffic on Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays and on ceremonial occasions.

36–38 Queen Anne's Gate or Falcon House is an Edwardian office block that stands in Queen Anne's Gate in London.

The Flanders Fields Memorial Garden is a monument dedicated to the participants of World War I situated alongside the Guards Chapel at Wellington Barracks in Central London, England. The garden was opened by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and King Philippe of the Belgians on 6 November 2014. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge were also in attendance, alongside soldiers of the Household Division.

The Statue of Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis stands in the grounds of Wellington Barracks by the Flanders Fields Memorial Garden and Guards Chapel.

St Stephen's Club was a private member's club in Westminster, London, founded in 1870.St Stephen's was originally on the corner of Bridge Street and the Embankment, in London SW1, now the location of Portcullis House. From 1962 it occupied a building at 34 Queen Anne's Gate, overlooking Birdcage Walk and St. James's Park. According to Charles Dickens, Jr., writing in 1879: St Stephen’s Club, Victoria Embankment, S. W. — The only persons eligible for membership are those who profess and maintain Constitutional and Conservative principles. The committee have power to select for ballot twenty candidates annually from those duly proposed and seconded, who shall be called selected members. The election of members is by ballot in committee. Entrance fee, £31 10s.; subscription, £10 10s.

The Royal Military Chapel, commonly known as the Guards' Chapel, is a British chapel that serves as the religious home of the Household Division at the Wellington Barracks in London, United Kingdom. Completed in 1838 in the style of a Grecian temple and re-designed during the 1870s, the chapel was damaged by German bombing during the Blitz in 1940 and 1941. On Sunday, 18 June 1944, the chapel was hit again, this time by a V-1 bomb during the morning service. The explosion of the flying bomb collapsed the concrete roof onto the congregation, which left 121 people killed and 141 injured (both military and civilian). Using the memorials from the old chapel as foundations, a new chapel was built in a Modernist style in 1963. The building was given Grade II* listed status in 1970.The Flanders Fields Memorial Garden is situated adjacent to the chapel.On the last Tuesday of each month, except August, the chapel hosts a free 45-minute lunchtime concert that features a wide variety of music. The Order of the Garter Banner of FM Lord Alexander of Tunis was transferred from St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle to the Guards' Chapel following his death in 1969.

In England and Wales the Law Commission (Welsh: Comisiwn y Gyfraith) is an independent law commission set up by Parliament by the Law Commissions Act 1965 to keep the law of England and Wales under review and to recommend reforms. The organisation is headed by a Chairman (currently Sir Nicholas Green, a judge of the Court of Appeal) and four Law Commissioners. It proposes changes to the law that will make the law simpler, more accessible, fairer, modern and more cost-effective. It consults widely on its proposals and in the light of the responses to public consultation, it presents recommendations to the UK Parliament that, if legislated upon, would implement its law reform recommendations. The commission is part of the Commonwealth Association of Law Reform Agencies.

102 Petty France is an office block on Petty France in Westminster, London, overlooking St. James's Park, which was designed by Fitzroy Robinson & Partners, with Sir Basil Spence, and completed in 1976. It was well known as the main location for the UK Home Office between 1978 and 2004, when it was known as 50 Queen Anne's Gate; it now houses the Ministry of Justice, Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service and the Government Legal Department. The building is 56 metres (184 ft) high, with 14 floors providing 51,000 square metres (550,000 sq ft) of office space.