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Embassy of Switzerland, London

embassy in London, England, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ5369879 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Embassy of Switzerland (German: Schweizerische Botschaft im Vereinigten Königreich, French: Ambassade de Suisse au Royaume-Uni, Italian: Ambasciata di Svizzera nel Regno Unito) in London is the diplomatic mission of Switzerland in the United Kingdom. It consists of a large nineteenth-century building with a modern addition and is located halfway between Montagu Square and Bryanston Square. There is a commemorative stone at the entrance to the embassy marking its rebuilding in 1970.

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“Embassy of Switzerland, London” enters the record as embassy in London, England, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Embassy, Switzerland and London can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Embassy, Switzerland and London.
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“Embassy of Switzerland, London” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Embassy, Switzerland and London provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5369879. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1970.

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This entry incorporates text from “Embassy of Switzerland, London” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.