Prince Albert II, the reigning monarch, has flirted with the idea of another land-reclamation project, inviting bids and briefly giving his support in 2010 to a design by Daniel Libeskind, the architect who drew up the master plan for the reconstruction of New York's World Trade Center.

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The Nash Conservatory was relocated from Buckingham Palace grounds in 1836 by reigning British monarch King William IV.

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