Jamie Laing’s insider guide to Chelsea

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I moved to London when I was eight years old with my mum and brother, into a house just off Kensington High Street. I’d come from living in the countryside, I was used to running around barefoot, so the prospect of being in the city was terrifying at first. The best thing about it was having the giant Odeon cinema and a Häagen-Dazs shop at the end of our street. So you could say…