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Buckingham Palace
Home of British kings and queens over the
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years and a major tourist attraction in the
UK.
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If you think Buckingham Palace has been the
home to kings and queens for many hundreds
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of years, you’ll be surprised to hear that
the first monarch started living there less
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than 200 years ago.
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That monarch was Queen Victoria and she called
it home from 1837.
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A monument to her lies right in front of the
palace.
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The palace is huge with close to 800 rooms.
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188 of them are bedrooms for the staff.
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Then there are state rooms, offices and nearly
80 bathrooms.
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That’s not to mention, a police and doctors
office, a post office as well as a movie theatre
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and swimming pool.
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To the rear of the palace is a huge garden,
which is the biggest private one in london.
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And in the summer a garden party hosted by
the monarch takes place.
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Although Buckingham Palace is the main home
of the monarch, the late Queen Elizabeth II
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didn’t spend all of her time there.
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On the weekends, she liked to stay at one
of her other homes to the west called Windsor
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Castle, which has even more rooms than Buckingham
Palace and a much longer history.
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If you visit Buckingham palace and want to
know if the current monarch, King Charles
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III is in the palace or not, there’s a simple
way to tell.
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Simply look at the palace flag.
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If you see the Union Jack flag, it means the
King is not home, and if you see the Royal
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Standard flag, he’s home.
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You may not know, but it’s actually possible
to go inside the Palace and see many of the
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state rooms.
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The times and dates may change with King Charles,
but during Elizabeth’s reign, you could
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book tickets to enter in August and September,
which was when the Queen went on holiday to
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one of her other homes called Balmoral Castle
in Scotland.
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As we come to the end of this video, I only
have time for one more fact, and that fact
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is about time itself.
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Not surprisingly, the huge palace has a lot
of clocks - around 350 of them, but what is
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surprising is that there are timekeepers,
whose only job it is to keep them running
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correctly.
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Thanks for watching!
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