| VILLIERS | George _, lst Duke of Buckingham, courtier assassinated in 1628 (8) |
| PLOT | The storyline of a film, novel or play that "thickens", according to George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham in The Rehearsal (4) |
| DRAWCANSIR | Tyrant in 'The Rehearsal' by the Duke of Buckingham (10) |
| STOWE | Designed by architects including John Vanbrugh, James Gibbs, William Kent and Robert Adam, the historical country seat of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos (5) |
| MULBERRY | With a national collection of 34 named varieties held by the Queen in the gardens of Buckingham Palace, a tree in the genus Morus and its fruit (8) |
| DECIMATE | It will take one in ten to marry after December lst (8) |
| FOUNTAIN | Water feature found in Roman gardens around lst century BC (8) |
| MALHERBE | Franois de --, French poet (1555-1628) (8) |
| MALPIGHI | Marcello ___ (1628-94) (8) |
| MILLIGAN | Spike dodgy mailing list (lst omitted completely) (8) |
| BARBADOS | This Caribbean country elected its lst president, a Black woman (8) |
| CHARLESPERRAULT | French author born in 1628 who wrote a series of fairy tales including Puss In Boots (7,8) |
| LAROCHELLE | Huguenot stronghold which fell to the forces of Cardinal Richlieu (assisted by the three musketeers) in 1628 (2,8) |
| HARVEY | Man who discovered the circulation of the blood in 1628 (6) |
| AGRA | Where Shah Jahan was crowned in 1628 |
| PICT | Member of any of the peoples who lived in Britain north of the Forth and Clyde between the lst and 4th centuries (4) |
| NASH | Architect who designed Marble Arch in London, the Royal Pavilion in Brighton and parts of Buckingham Palace (4) |
| SENTRY | One of the Queen's guards stationed in a box-like shelter at the entrance of Buckingham Palace (6) |
| CORGI | Eg Willow or Holly seen in grounds of Buckingham Palace? |
| BELGRAVIA | An affluent residential district in Central London, to the southwest of Buckingham Palace (9) |
