Buckingham Palace

Must see

19 May 08, 20:49 Beyond expectations

This is an absolute must see if you are in London. The palace is enormous and you can see chging of the guards which is quite something to see! They got to keep straight faces so go on.. go and see if you can make one smile!

British

16 May 08, 20:29 Above expectations

A pure bit of Britishness, the home of the queen and the royal guardsmen, stood proud out front in the red suits and big tall black hair. They don't smile or laugh just have to stand to attention 24/7.

proud

24 Apr 08, 11:10 Above expectations

As a brit, i love to show off the fact that im british, the crouds show disbeliefe when they watch the guards etc do there thing! The best for me was when we were stood at the gates and a cavalcade of cars came to go in, saw the palace at its best in my view

One detail more

14 Apr 08, 16:02 As expected

At the back of the palace, large and park-like, is Buckingham Palace Garden. The Garden Front of the palace, by Nash, is of pale golden Bath stone. The garden, which includes a lake, is the largest private garden in London.

Here the Queen hosts her annual garden parties each summer, but since June 2002, she has invited the public into the Garden on numerous occasions. See Buckingham Palace Garden for accounts for the historical spectaculars which marked the Queen's Golden Jubilee (2002) and her 80th birthday (2006).

The Inside

26 Sep 07, 21:00 As expected

As someone has already talked about it a bit, i thought i'd tell you about the inside.

Much of it was desgined by Nash, enormous columns of marble all over the main entrance way- red carpet. The stairway going up to the ball room is amazing.

The Ballroom itself has several massive chandeliers- if you look closely you can see a hole in one of them. Its not for a security camera, its just where the crystal got too hot and smashed.

There is a secret door in the white drawing room- but i'm not going to tell you where!

Major tourist attraction

13 Jul 07, 15:41 Beyond expectations

The site of this historical landmark is astonishing and very attractive to tourists. This monument is the home of Her Majesty The Royal Queen. The palace looks enormous apparently it has around 700 rooms. Sightings of the queen are yet still very rare to be spotted. I haven't yet been lucky enough to go inside but im persuming the decor would consist of galleries of past royal figures.