The doors of the famous National Portrait Gallery are closed to the public pending a major refurbishment but you can still enjoy the portraits on my Virtual Tour of Five Famous Londoners. Come and admire the portraits, and hear the remarkable stories of five of London's most celebrated sons, from diarist Samuel Pepys to defining novelist of the Victorian period Charles Dickens, and not forgetting the German immigrant who made London his home - George Frederic Handel, the Covent Garden boy who became one of our greatest ever artists - J.M.W. Turner, and the military hero of Waterloo - the Duke of Wellington.