The magnificent boulevard called The Mall lies beyond the Admiralty Arch. One side is completely open onto St James's Park, and the other side offers noble, Neoclassical façade s alternating with elegant gardens. This large, straight boulevard was created in the mid-seventeenth century by King Charles II, enlarged in Neoclassical times, and further renovated in the early 1900s to better frame Buckingham Palace, which marks the boulevard's end with its wide façade . At the Diamond Jubilee marking the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II in 2012, more than a million people crowded The Mall to watch the royal family's greeting from the palace's balcony.
