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Embassy of Zimbabwe, London

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Rhodesia House was Rhodesia's High Commission to London. It was the official legation for Rhodesia from 1923 until the Rhodesian UDI on November 11, 1965.

After the UDI, Rhodesia's High Commissioner was declared Personna Non Grata by the British Government and ordered to leave London. However, because of concerns over diplomatic property under International Law, Rhodesia House was not seized by the British Government. It simply became a Representative Office with no official diplomatic status and remained that way until 1980, when it was taken over by the new Government of Zimbabwe. It is now called Zimbabwe House and is now the Zimbabwean Embassy to the Court of St. James (The former term of High Commission was terminated when Zimbabwe left the Commonwealth)