Buckingham Palace

 Buckingham Palace is located opposite the streets of Pall Mall, and the white marble monument with a gold Queen Victoria. When the Queen is in the palace roof develops a royal flag. Her ancestor, King George IV, insisted that the palace was built by architect John Nash. The cost of construction has reached 700,000 pounds by the use of such excesses as the 500 block of marble veined Carrara. After 3 years, in 1837., When Queen Victoria came to the throne, the palace was almost impossible to live. Most of the 1,000 windows would not open. By 1853 was built ballroom. King Edward VII was born in this palace in 1841. and here he died in 1910. Despite the exuberant apartment of the palace, which houses many family jewels, not everyone who lived there were happy. In his memoirs, the Duke of Windsor, wrote that the great palace, "with its great halls and endless corridors filled with the smell of mildew appeared, which I still feel every time I go into it." Private apartments of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are now in the northern wing of the building overlooking the Green Park (Green Park). In the summer palace is visited by 30,000 guests, that participate in receptions in the royal garden, where there is a lake and waterfalls. Complete picture of the natural world flamingo birds, which do not violate the peace of the king, even helicopters circling over the garden. Buckingham Palace - a study of the monarchy. Tasks of the staff range from detention to the palace banquet for the heads of other states ambassadors and awards ceremony. From this beginning, many royal ceremonies, for example. The state opening of parliament sessions in the fall or ceremony "Truping de Color" in honor of the Queen's birthday in June. In the Royal Gallery, built on the site of the chapel, which was destroyed during the war, the exhibitions of the royal collections. Royal stables of horses, blankets, with a magnificent state coach, painted by Italian artist Cipriani, and the more modern vehicles and crews are also open to the public