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  • Detail of the brass nameplate outside the Foreign & Commonwealth Office outside the government department on King Charles Street SW1, on 5th October, 2017, in London, England. The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-06-05-10-2017.jpg
  • Detail of the brass nameplate outside the Foreign & Commonwealth Office outside the government department on King Charles Street SW1, on 5th October, 2017, in London, England. The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-03-05-10-2017.jpg
  • Detail of the brass nameplate outside the Foreign & Commonwealth Office outside the government department on King Charles Street SW1, on 5th October, 2017, in London, England. The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-05-05-10-2017.jpg
  • The statues of Sir Eyre-Coote, K.B. by Thomas Banks (1788) and   <br />
Marquis Cornwallis, K.G. by John Bacon, Senior (1791) in the Gurkha Stair in the former India Office, which was part of the Foreign and Colonial Office (now the Foreign and Commonwealth Office), Whitehall, London. on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-12-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The architecture of the covered Durbar Court, inside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and part of the former India Office, on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley KG PC PC (Ire) (1760-1842) was styled Viscount Wesley from birth until 1781 and was known as Earl of Mornington from 1781 until 1799. He was an Irish and British politician and colonial administrator.The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-08-17-09-2017.jpg
  • Detail of the brass nameplate outside the Foreign & Commonwealth Office outside the government department on King Charles Street SW1, on 5th October, 2017, in London, England. The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-04-05-10-2017.jpg
  • The architecture of the covered Durbar Court, inside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and part of the former India Office, on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-06-17-09-2017.jpg
  • Interior architecture of the Locarno Room in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. In 1925 the Foreign Office played host to the signing of the Locarno Treaties, aimed at reducing tension in Europe. The ceremony took place in a suite of rooms that had been designed for banqueting, which subsequently became known as the Locarno Suite. During the Second World War, the Locarno Suite's fine furnishings were removed or covered up, and it became home to a foreign office code-breaking department.
    foreign_office-20-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The long meeting table in the Locarno Room at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. In 1925 the Foreign Office played host to the signing of the Locarno Treaties, aimed at reducing tension in Europe. The ceremony took place in a suite of rooms that had been designed for banqueting, which subsequently became known as the Locarno Suite. During the Second World War, the Locarno Suite's fine furnishings were removed or covered up, and it became home to a foreign office code-breaking department.
    foreign_office-23-17-09-2017.jpg
  • Palmerston, the resident cat of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) sleeps on a winged armchair in the Ambassadors Meeting Room where senior foreign diplomats wait for official meetings, on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. Palmerston is the resident Chief Mouser at the FCO who began his role in2016. Previously, he was from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home and is named after the former Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister Lord Palmerston.
    foreign_office-27-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The furnishings of the Ambassadors Meeting Room where senior foreign diplomats wait for official meetings, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England.
    foreign_office-30-17-09-2017.jpg
  • Detail of the brass nameplate outside the Foreign & Commonwealth Office outside the government department on King Charles Street SW1, on 5th October, 2017, in London, England. The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-02-05-10-2017.jpg
  • The statues of Sir Eyre-Coote, K.B. by Thomas Banks (1788) and   <br />
Marquis Cornwallis, K.G. by John Bacon, Senior (1791) in the Gurkha Stair in the former India Office, which was part of the Foreign and Colonial Office (now the Foreign and Commonwealth Office), Whitehall, London. on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-11-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The architecture of the covered Durbar Court, inside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and part of the former India Office, on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley KG PC PC (Ire) (1760-1842) was styled Viscount Wesley from birth until 1781 and was known as Earl of Mornington from 1781 until 1799. He was an Irish and British politician and colonial administrator.The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-14-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The architecture of the covered Durbar Court, inside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and part of the former India Office, on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley KG PC PC (Ire) (1760-1842) was styled Viscount Wesley from birth until 1781 and was known as Earl of Mornington from 1781 until 1799. He was an Irish and British politician and colonial administrator.The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-07-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The architecture of the covered Durbar Court, inside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and part of the former India Office, on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley KG PC PC (Ire) (1760-1842) was styled Viscount Wesley from birth until 1781 and was known as Earl of Mornington from 1781 until 1799. He was an Irish and British politician and colonial administrator.The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-10-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The architecture of the covered Durbar Court, inside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and part of the former India Office, on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley KG PC PC (Ire) (1760-1842) was styled Viscount Wesley from birth until 1781 and was known as Earl of Mornington from 1781 until 1799. He was an Irish and British politician and colonial administrator.The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-09-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The Muses Stair and glass octagonal lantern, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. The roof is graced by goddesses of plenty (canephora) and cherubs illustrating the Roman virtues. The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-18-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The portraits of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie at the top of the Muses Stair below the glass octagonal lantern, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. The royal portraits of Napoleon Empress Eugenie, were gifted to the East India Company in gratitude of its benefaction to the Paris Exhibition of 1855. The roof is an octagonal glass dome, graced by goddesses of plenty (canephora) and cherubs illustrating the Roman virtues. The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-16-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The portraits of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie at the top of the Muses Stair below the glass octagonal lantern, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. The royal portraits of Napoleon Empress Eugenie, were gifted to the East India Company in gratitude of its benefaction to the Paris Exhibition of 1855. The roof is an octagonal glass dome, graced by goddesses of plenty (canephora) and cherubs illustrating the Roman virtues. The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-15-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The statue of the 4th Earl of Clarendon KG GCB at the foot of the Grand Staircase in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon KG GCB PC (1800–1870), was an English diplomat and statesman. The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-31-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The Muses Stair and glass octagonal lantern, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. The roof is graced by goddesses of plenty (canephora) and cherubs illustrating the Roman virtues. The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    foreign_office-17-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The long meeting table in the Locarno Room at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. In 1925 the Foreign Office played host to the signing of the Locarno Treaties, aimed at reducing tension in Europe. The ceremony took place in a suite of rooms that had been designed for banqueting, which subsequently became known as the Locarno Suite. During the Second World War, the Locarno Suite's fine furnishings were removed or covered up, and it became home to a foreign office code-breaking department.
    foreign_office-21-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The long meeting table in the Locarno Room at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. In 1925 the Foreign Office played host to the signing of the Locarno Treaties, aimed at reducing tension in Europe. The ceremony took place in a suite of rooms that had been designed for banqueting, which subsequently became known as the Locarno Suite. During the Second World War, the Locarno Suite's fine furnishings were removed or covered up, and it became home to a foreign office code-breaking department.
    foreign_office-24-17-09-2017.jpg
  • Palmerston, the resident cat of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) sleeps on a winged armchair in the Ambassadors Meeting Room where senior foreign diplomats wait for official meetings, on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. Palmerston is the resident Chief Mouser at the FCO who began his role in2016. Previously, he was from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home and is named after the former Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister Lord Palmerston.
    foreign_office-29-17-09-2017.jpg
  • Palmerston, the resident cat of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) sleeps on a winged armchair in the Ambassadors Meeting Room where senior foreign diplomats wait for official meetings, on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. Palmerston is the resident Chief Mouser at the FCO who began his role in2016. Previously, he was from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home and is named after the former Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister Lord Palmerston.
    foreign_office-28-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The current Foreign Secretary, Rt Hon Boris Johnson speaks via TV screen to visitors during a tour of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson PC MP (1964-), known as Boris Johnson, is a divisive British politician whose campaigning led to the UK Brexit vote.
    foreign_office-19-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The door to the Africa Directorate, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England.
    foreign_office-13-17-09-2017.jpg
  • A WW2-era German secret Enigma code machine is displayed in the Locarno Dining Room, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. The Enigma machine is a piece of hardware invented by a German and used by Britain's codebreakers as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two. It has been claimed that as a result of the information gained through this device, hostilities between Germany and the Allied forces were curtailed by two years. An estimated 100,000 Enigma machines were constructed.
    foreign_office-25-17-09-2017.jpg
  • A WW2-era German secret Enigma code machine is displayed in the Locarno Dining Room, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. The Enigma machine is a piece of hardware invented by a German and used by Britain's codebreakers as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two. It has been claimed that as a result of the information gained through this device, hostilities between Germany and the Allied forces were curtailed by two years. An estimated 100,000 Enigma machines were constructed.
    foreign_office-26-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The architecture of the Grand Staircase in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    banqueting_hall-02-17-09-2017.jpg
  • A pro-EU Brexit protest flag opposite the UK Foreign Office in Westminster, on 28th January 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-04-28-01-2019.jpg
  • The architecture of the Grand Staircase in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. The main Foreign Office building is in King Charles Street, and was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1868 as part of the new block of government offices which included the India Office and later (1875) the Colonial and Home Offices. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices but he had an amicable partnership with Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, who designed and built the interior of the India Office.
    banqueting_hall-01-17-09-2017.jpg
  • The names of battles in nothern France, scenes of slaughter and sacrifice for young men of the First World War, seen on a memorial at Wincheters College, England where many old boys schooled here and who went on to become leaders and officers in the trenches. The lost generation of British youth is displayed on such memorials across the country, killed at Arras, Bapaume and Vimy - and especially on the Somme during the conflict called 'the war to end all wars'. World War I (WWI) was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. Ultimately, more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed.
    war_memorial01-10-12-2012.jpg
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