We all know the scene. Juliet, played by Keira Knightley, is sitting on the sofa with her new husband Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor), when the doorbell rings. She rushes through her neutral-toned, wooden-floored Notting Hill home to the front door, where she finds Mark (Andrew Lincoln), her husband’s best friend. “Say it’s carol singers,” he instructs her, pressing play on his CD player and confessing his secret love for her on a — now much-memed — series of placards.
Since Love Actually was released in 2003, the pretty cobbled mews street, flanked by colourful houses, has become a popular tourist attraction, with people queuing up to take photos in front of Juliet’s pink house. In 2019, Kensington and Chelsea council even released a parody video, encouraging visitors to visit nearby attractions instead in a bid to protect residents’ privacy.
