title: The 500 Hidden Secrets of London Revised and Updated
author: Tom Greig
description: <span><span>Tom Greig has lived and worked in London for almost 15 years. His work as a sales representative for arts publishers takes him across London on a daily basis. He has an intimate knowledge, and love, of the city. A former editor of IP1 Magazine, this is his first book. Sam Mellish is a London based photographer. His work has been internationally exhibited and widely published, and he is the author of three books. Imagery from his second book, Roadside Britain, is represented by the picture-story agency, Institute.</span></span>
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  # THE ROYAL SECRET
  
  
  ## Andrew Taylor
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## [Copyright](05_contents.xhtml#copy)
  
  
  Published by HarperCollins _Publishers_ Ltd
  
  
  1 London Bridge Street
  
  
  London SE1 9GF
  
  
  [www.harpercollins.co.uk](http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)
  
  
  First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins _Publishers_ 2021
  
  
  Copyright © Andrew Taylor 2021
  
  
  Cover design © HarperCollins _Publishers_ Ltd 2021
  
  
  Cover illustrations © Andrew Davidson/The Artworks Inc
  
  
  Andrew Taylor asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this
  work.
  
  
  Endpapers show a reduced copy of Fisher’s Ground Plan of the Royal Palace of
  Whitehall, 1680, (1881) © The Print Collector/Alamy Stock Photo
  
  
  A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
  
  
  This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents
  portrayed in 