Four of its 24 rooms fill the former residence of Prince Souvannaphouma (1901--84), with the remainder in a new Garden Wing.

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The house was recently awarded a blue plaque to mark it as the former residence of the artist, Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples.

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Before writing off the former royal residence of Versailles as another tourist trap, bear in mind that most visitors stick to the Royal Palace and Chateau and never venture to the grounds beyond.

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The new parliament will be built in Edinburgh opposite the former Scottish monarch's residence of Holyrood Palace.

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The Mater Ecclesiae monastery was built in 1992 on the site of a former residence for the Vatican's gardeners.

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Dusk is falling over the Forbidden City, the former imperial residence, and the last crowds of the day are filtering out through the gateways.

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The present and past pope, who retired last month as pontiff in a 600-year break with tradition, met on Saturday at the papal retreat in Castel Gandolfo, where Benedict is staying until a former convent on the grounds of Vatican City can be readied for his residence.

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But the discovery of a bag of bones in a pit being dug for a swimming pool at his former residence gave new life to the missing persons case in 1994.

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Former President Ali Abdullah Saleh said the condition was agreed to in a secret deal struck last May at the residence of Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, who was recently elected as the new president of Yemen, said the aide, who asked not to be named.

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