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BUCKINGHAM PALACE

Martin Kuuben

Gerdel Kuusik

Marianne Heinla

Marite Helena Hiieme

Leane Jefimova

Heleriin Malkov

Kristiina Toom


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ABOUT

Buckingham palace is the London home and primary residence of the

British monarch.

Located in the City of Westminster.

A setting for state occasions and royal hospitality.

It has been a focus for the British people at times of national rejoicing

and crisis.

It has the largest private garden in London.

The Sovereign's official residence is still St James's Palace.


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HISTORY

The history of Buckingham Palace began in 1702 when the Duke

of Buckingham had it built as his London home.

The Dukes son sold the house in 1761 to George III.

George III bought Buckingham House in 1761 for his wife Queen

Charlotte. Buckingham House became known as the Queen's House.


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In 1762 work began on remodelling the house to the King's requirements.

As work progressed, the King had a change of heart. With the assistance of his

architect, he set about transforming the house into a palace.

The north and south wings of Buckingham House were demolished and rebuilt

on a larger scale with a triumphal arch - the Marble Arch - to commemorate the

British victories at Trafalgar and Waterloo.

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BUCKINGHAM PALACE IN 1808


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The present forecourt of the Palace, where Changing the Guard takes

place, was formed in 1911, as part of the Victoria Memorial scheme.

The gates and railings were also completed in 1911.

The North-Centre Gate is now the everyday entrance to the Palace,

whilst the Central Gate is used for State occasions and the departure of

the guard after Changing the Guard.


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BUCKINGHAM PALACE TODAY


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INTERIOR

The Palace measures 108 metres by 120 metres, is 24 metres high and

contains over 77,000 m2 of floorspace.

The principal rooms of the palace are contained on the piano nobile.

The centre of this ornate suite of state rooms is the Music Room.

Flanking the Music Room are the Blue and the White Drawing rooms.

At the centre of the suite, serving as a corridor to link the state rooms,

is the Picture Gallery.


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Other rooms leading from the Picture Gallery are the Throne

Room and the Green Drawing Room.

Directly underneath the State Apartments is a suite of slightly less

grand rooms known as the semi-state apartments.

Opening from the Marble Hall, these rooms are used for less

formal entertaining, such as luncheon parties and private audiences.

Some of the rooms are named and decorated for particular

visitors.


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Between 1847 and 1850 Blore was building the new east wing.

The red and blue Chinese Luncheon Room.

The Yellow Drawing Room.

At the centre of this wing is the famous balcony, with the Centre

Room behind its glass doors.

Running the length of the piano nobile of the east wing is the great

gallery Principal Corridor.

The original early 19th-century interior designs included widespread

use of brightly coloured scagliola and blue and pink lapis.


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THE QUEENS GALLERY

The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace was constructed forty

years ago out of the bomb-damaged ruins of the former privatechapel. The Gallery underwent extensive refurbishment and

expansion to celebrate The Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002 and was

reopened by Her Majesty on 21 May that year.

The Queens Gallery is a permanent space dedicated to exhibitions

of items from the Royal Collection.


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The Collection includes paintings, drawings and watercolours,

furniture, ceramics, clocks, silver, sculpture, jewellery, books and

manuscripts, prints and maps, arms and armour, and textiles.

It largely consists of objects after the Restoration of the Monarchy

in 1660.

Only a small part of the collection is on display at any time so the

objects on display are continuously rotated making it worthy of repeat

visits.


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CURRENT EXHIBITION

The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton & Antarctic

Photography

Until 15 April 2012

This exhibition of remarkable Antarctic photography by George

Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley marks the 100th anniversary of

Captain Scotts ill-fated journey to the South Pole.


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H. G. Ponting F. Hurley


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ROYAL MEWS

The mews of the British Royal Family.

Combined stables, carriage house and in recent times also a garage.

One of the finest working stables in the world.

In London the Royal Mews has occupied two main sites, formerly

at Charing Cross and since the 1820s at Buckingham Palace.


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The first set of stables were at Charing Cross at the western end

of the Strand.

It was usually known as the Kings Mews, but also referred to as

the Royal Mews, the Royal Stables or as the Queens Mews.

The building was destroyed by fire in 1534 and was rebuilt.

It was rebuilt again in 1732 to the designs of William Kent.

In the early 19th century it was open to the public.


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The present Royal Mews is in the grounds of Buckingham Palace.

The old mews at Charing Cross was demolished and a new one

was designed by John Nash.

The state coaches, other carriages, along with about 30 horses and

state motor cars are kept there.


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The Mews is a working part of the Palace.

The Royal Mews Department is overseen by an official called the

Crown Equerry.

The horses in the Royal Mews are regularly exercised in the art of

pulling carriages.

The maintenance and provision of modern motor vehicles is as

much a part of the work of Mews as that of carriages and horses.


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COURT CEREMONIES

COURT DRESS

Men not wearing military uniform would wear knee breeches of an

18th-century design.

Women's evening dress included trains and tiaras or feathers in their

hair (or both).

The dress code has progressively relaxed.

Today, there is no official dress code.


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PRESENTATION OF DEBUTANTES

Took place in the Throne Room.

Represented the aristocratic girls' first entry into society.

In 1958, the Queen abolished the presentation parties for

debutantes, replacing them with Garden Parties.

Today, the Throne Room is used for the reception of formal

addresses.


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INVESTITURES

Include the conferring of knighthoods by dubbing with a sword, and

other awards.

Take place in the palace's ballroom, built in 1854.

The Queen stands on the throne dais beneath a giant, domed velvet

canopy.

A military band plays in the musicians' gallery.


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STATE BANQUETS

Also take place in the Ballroom.

The largest and most formal reception at Buckingham Palace takes

place every November, when the Queen entertains members of the

foreign diplomatic corps resident in London.

All the large, double-mirrored doors stand open, reflecting the

numerous crystal chandeliers and sconces, causing a deliberate optical

illusion of space and light.


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OTHER CEREMONIES AND FUNCTIONS

Smaller ceremonies take place in the "1844 Room".

Larger lunch parties often take place in the curved and domed

Music Room, or the State Dining Room. Royal christenings have sometimes taken place in the Music

Room.

The largest functions of the year are the Queen's Garden Parties

for up to 8,000 invites.


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CHANGE OF THE GUARD

A process that involves a new guard exchanging duty with the old

guard.

The Guard is called The Queens Guard.

The Buckingham Palace Detachment, the St. Jamess Palace

Detachment.

Drawn from Foot Guards in the British Army: the Scots Guards, the

Irish Guards, the Welsh Guards, the Grenadier Guards and the

Coldstream Guards.


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The handover is accompanied by a Guards band.

The music played: traditional military marches, songs from films and

musicals, familiar pop songs.

When The Queen is in residence, there are four sentries at the front

of the building. When she is away there are two.

Foot Guards are in their full-dress uniform of red tunics and

bearskins.


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Units from Commonwealth realms occasionally take turn in Guard

Mounting.

Guard Mounting takes place at 11.30 am daily from May to July, on

alternate dates throughout the rest of the year.

There is no Guard Mounting in very wet weather.


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In 2004, a member of Fathers4Justice spent five and a half hours

standing on the parapet by the balcony at the front of Buckingham

Palace. Although the Queen was not present at the time, it raised

fears of a terrorist attack on the palace, and gave rise to calls for the

British Army to be given a greater hand in the security of the Royal

Family.


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F I R S T H O U S E S O N T H E S I T E

Possibly the first house erected within the site was that of a Sir William Blake,

around 1624.

The next owner was Lord Goring, who from 1633 extended Blake's house and

developed much of today's garden, then known as Goring Great Garden.

He did not, however, manage to obtain freehold interest in the mulberry

garden. Unbeknown to Goring, in 1640 the document "failed to pass the Great

Seal before King Charles I fled London, which it needed to do for legal execution.

(It was this critical omission that helped the British royal family regain the freeholdunder.)


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The improvident Goring defaulted on his rents.

Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington obtained the mansion and

was occupying it, now known as Goring House, when it burned down

in 1674.

Arlington House rose on the sitethe southern wing of today's

palacethe next year, and its freehold was bought in 1702.


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The house which forms the architectural core of the present palace was built for

the first Duke Of Buckingham and Normanby in 1703 to the design of William

Winde.

Buckingham House was eventually sold by Buckingham's descendant, Sir

Charles Sheffield, in 1761 toGeorge III for 21,000 (3,000,000 as of 2011).

Like his grandfather, George II, George III refused to sell the mulberry garden

interest, so that Sheffield had been unable to purchase the full freehold of the site.

When Sheffield sold Buckingham House it came into the hands of the Royal Family.
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