London is usually high on bucket lists for family vacations to Europe.  The people speak English, there’s a lot of familiar, kid-friendly food, and the city has attractions and activities you know you want to see before you even pick up a guidebook. But which of those attractions will kids …

As an ex-Londoner living in New York all the recent royal-family news has me thinking about what I would do if I wanted to take my English-born kids with their American accents on a wild ride of the top royal tourist destinations around London. The U.K.’s palaces and castles are …