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==Notable residents== In October 2004, serving [[Prime Minister]] [[Tony Blair]] and his wife [[Cherie Blair|Cherie]] bought as their home a house on this square for Β£3.5 million;<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3707520.stm The house that Tony bought], [[BBC News]], 1 October 2004.</ref> as at 2007 the policing of which was an all-hours rota giving at least four on-duty [[Metropolitan Police Service]] [[Diplomatic Protection Group]] officers.<ref name="indy">[https://web.archive.org/web/20091124075933/http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/claudia-winkleman/claudia-winkleman-take-it-from-me-449062.html Claudia Winkleman: Take It From Me - Blair's moving in] ''[[The Independent]]'' (London). Published 16 May 2007. Retrieved 30 May 2009. </ref> Other famous residents have included: * β5 - [[Nigel Balchin]] - author * β14 - [[Marie Taglioni]] - ballerina (resident from 1875 until 1876) * β15 - [[Fanny Kemble]] - actress, author, playwright and poet (resident from 1877 to 1879)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chancellor|first1=Edwin Beresford|title=The History of the Squares of London|date=1907|publisher=Kegan, Paul, Trench, and Trubner & Co.|page=317}}</ref>
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