History of the Embassy buildings

The Embassies of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic have, since 1918, resided in a number of beautiful buildings in central London. Although today some of them serve other purposes, they remain part of our history.

The first buildings in Grosvenor Place govern not only the beginning moment of the representation of the new state of Czechoslovakia in London, but also for a period during the Second World War housed the Office of the President and of the Government in exile. The buildings were luxuriously equipped and modernized by the Czechoslovak state but in the summer of 1944 were extensively damaged during an air raid on London. Please read further.