What It Is Like to Live at Buckingham Palace
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Date: 2022-12-29
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ZS
Another reason for keeping Buckingham Palace the same would be because the British people pay taxes to the British Royal Family. If those taxes were used for redecorating, I'm pretty sure the public would be less than happy. Meghan and Harry did that and in the end had to pay all the money back in installments because the British public went mad. So I'm pretty sure unless the Royal Family actually had Documents to prove any redecorating came from their own pockets which is a rigorous and unpleasant task, they would refrain from it.
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Another reason for keeping Buckingham Palace the same would be because the British people pay taxes to the British Royal Family. If those taxes were used for redecorating, I'm pretty sure the public would be less than happy. Meghan and Harry did that and in the end had to pay all the money back in installments because the British public went mad. So I'm pretty sure unless the Royal Family actually had Documents to prove any redecorating came from their own pockets which is a rigorous and unpleasant task, they would refrain from it.
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Pablo
I married a Brit as a student there in the late 80s. I was employed as a marble masons assistant. We got a job rehabbing a government building across the road from Buckingham Palace. We could look over the wall into the back garden where the queen would often hold events. Saw the changing of the guard often and witnessed a few military parades to escort dignitaries from Victoria Station. Saw the Queen herself, Prince Phillip, Prince Charles, and Princess Diana while working there. It was quite the experience for an American.
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I married a Brit as a student there in the late 80s. I was employed as a marble masons assistant. We got a job rehabbing a government building across the road from Buckingham Palace. We could look over the wall into the back garden where the queen would often hold events. Saw the changing of the guard often and witnessed a few military parades to escort dignitaries from Victoria Station. Saw the Queen herself, Prince Phillip, Prince Charles, and Princess Diana while working there. It was quite the experience for an American.
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Michael
I wish people would stress more that the royal family doesn't own Buckingham Palace - it's more like their office, and obviously used mostly to impress. Nowadays, the royal family is essentially a tourist attraction and the tourists love it. And they don't own the crown jewels, either. I recently read that each British citizen pays 4. 5 pounds per year to keep their tourist attraction all spiffy for the public. Pretty cheap publicity for their country, if you ask me.
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I wish people would stress more that the royal family doesn't own Buckingham Palace - it's more like their office, and obviously used mostly to impress. Nowadays, the royal family is essentially a tourist attraction and the tourists love it. And they don't own the crown jewels, either. I recently read that each British citizen pays 4. 5 pounds per year to keep their tourist attraction all spiffy for the public. Pretty cheap publicity for their country, if you ask me.
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James
Well now TQ is no longer with us Charles is still living in Clarence House due to the renovations taking place for at least another 5 or so years.
Id expect when theyre done the palace will be opened up year round (apart from certain dates) as well as more areas being included within the tour that they currently do.
He has no desire to live their, Will and Kate may but that entirely depends on how old the children are when he becomes king is imagine.
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Well now TQ is no longer with us Charles is still living in Clarence House due to the renovations taking place for at least another 5 or so years.
Id expect when theyre done the palace will be opened up year round (apart from certain dates) as well as more areas being included within the tour that they currently do.
He has no desire to live their, Will and Kate may but that entirely depends on how old the children are when he becomes king is imagine.
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Elaine
What does the royal family do? They open and close, they head charities, they get food cooked for them, also housework, different clothing for outings, they are paid from taxes very high wages, lots of holidays, plane and trainall paid for. The kardashians are very similar, they dont have the wealth of the royals. need l say re andrew the biggest loony ever and utterly disgraceful. E.
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What does the royal family do? They open and close, they head charities, they get food cooked for them, also housework, different clothing for outings, they are paid from taxes very high wages, lots of holidays, plane and trainall paid for. The kardashians are very similar, they dont have the wealth of the royals. need l say re andrew the biggest loony ever and utterly disgraceful. E.
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Timothy
If you had an inside apartment to return to that wasnt the museum feel that would help, however theres an old saying from Scotland its better to be a Clan chieftain than the King of England, part of that is your response able for fewer people and greater freedom of movement. In short the palace is a gilded cage. I can see the wisdom of that.
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If you had an inside apartment to return to that wasnt the museum feel that would help, however theres an old saying from Scotland its better to be a Clan chieftain than the King of England, part of that is your response able for fewer people and greater freedom of movement. In short the palace is a gilded cage. I can see the wisdom of that.
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Leslie
Excuse me but you are talking about B. Palace and showing pics of Westminster Abbey. 58 2. 10 & I'm pretty sure there are pics out here somewhere of G. Maxwell and Kevin Spacey sitting on the Queen's throne in the throne room. Apparently Randy Andy let them when no one was looking
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Excuse me but you are talking about B. Palace and showing pics of Westminster Abbey. 58 2. 10 & I'm pretty sure there are pics out here somewhere of G. Maxwell and Kevin Spacey sitting on the Queen's throne in the throne room. Apparently Randy Andy let them when no one was looking
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Robert
2: 52 - I met Princess Anne once in Lexington, KY, USA at a horse show event called Rolex KY Three-Day Event. What a wonderful woman. She was so down to earth and just loved people. She didn't flaunt her royalty status. She acted and wanted to be treated just like everyone else.
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2: 52 - I met Princess Anne once in Lexington, KY, USA at a horse show event called Rolex KY Three-Day Event. What a wonderful woman. She was so down to earth and just loved people. She didn't flaunt her royalty status. She acted and wanted to be treated just like everyone else.
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Skunk
Leaky roof! Not wanting it fixed? Does the Royal Family want the place to fall apart in a few more years? That's insane.
I would hate living at Buckingham - no comforts of home, can't speak to Her Majesty unless she speaks to you, can't eat the nuts and no more bar room.
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Leaky roof! Not wanting it fixed? Does the Royal Family want the place to fall apart in a few more years? That's insane.
I would hate living at Buckingham - no comforts of home, can't speak to Her Majesty unless she speaks to you, can't eat the nuts and no more bar room.
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Little
I don't know why you keep showing photos of the Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament. It's rather misleading, when you're talking about Buckingham Palace. While both are important to the British government, and to history, they are not the same.
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I don't know why you keep showing photos of the Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament. It's rather misleading, when you're talking about Buckingham Palace. While both are important to the British government, and to history, they are not the same.
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MacKenziePoet. com
Britons, stop whinging about the miniscule cost of preserving your architectural heritage, as it makes you appear to the rest of us as a bunch of parsimonious Philistines. The time you spend whinging is better spent in works of charity.
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Britons, stop whinging about the miniscule cost of preserving your architectural heritage, as it makes you appear to the rest of us as a bunch of parsimonious Philistines. The time you spend whinging is better spent in works of charity.
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Chuck's
What is up with British remodeling and attaching architectural types of totally different style to one building. Refurbishment of palace with beach property and furnishings. Allowing staff to have weekend sleep over guest sort of brilliant.
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What is up with British remodeling and attaching architectural types of totally different style to one building. Refurbishment of palace with beach property and furnishings. Allowing staff to have weekend sleep over guest sort of brilliant.
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thesamuraihobbit
It's basically your stereotypical grandma's house. Tacky decorations, all kinds of tchotchkes that not even Grandma herself could explain, but hold sentimental value. Her Late Majesty was pretty much everybody's granny.
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It's basically your stereotypical grandma's house. Tacky decorations, all kinds of tchotchkes that not even Grandma herself could explain, but hold sentimental value. Her Late Majesty was pretty much everybody's granny.
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Beach
The details never matter, what we have is a monarch/head of state who has given the world 50+ democracies out of what should sensibly have been the ashes of empire. Of all the squalid details? put them in the round file. ;)
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The details never matter, what we have is a monarch/head of state who has given the world 50+ democracies out of what should sensibly have been the ashes of empire. Of all the squalid details? put them in the round file. ;)
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Melissa
Can we make sleeping in separate rooms a thing again? I love my husband but damn he makes sleeping hard sometimes. He also gets his feelings hurt whenever I bring up separate bedrooms
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Can we make sleeping in separate rooms a thing again? I love my husband but damn he makes sleeping hard sometimes. He also gets his feelings hurt whenever I bring up separate bedrooms
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Charlotte
King Charles is right. BP remains a huge fire trap, is more of a museum and should be treated as such. It should be thrown open to the public as we do own it. It would be marvelous.
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King Charles is right. BP remains a huge fire trap, is more of a museum and should be treated as such. It should be thrown open to the public as we do own it. It would be marvelous.
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Briony
The palace itself has onsite counsellors and doctors, yet according to Meghan and Harry mental health treatment wasnt accessible or encouraged by the royal family, hmmm!
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The palace itself has onsite counsellors and doctors, yet according to Meghan and Harry mental health treatment wasnt accessible or encouraged by the royal family, hmmm!
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Geraldine
well wouldnt know just like they wouldnt know price elec gas heat or eat wouldnt know to live like a queen all those rooms poor homless people out there its a joke
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well wouldnt know just like they wouldnt know price elec gas heat or eat wouldnt know to live like a queen all those rooms poor homless people out there its a joke
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Manchitas
At 5: 00. EIIR chair was not sat on once. Remember the photo capturing Ghislane Maxwell on it? Andy gave the tour and her her plant her $$ on the royal chair.
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At 5: 00. EIIR chair was not sat on once. Remember the photo capturing Ghislane Maxwell on it? Andy gave the tour and her her plant her $$ on the royal chair.
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Honeybunch
I will hate living in such an old place, I prefer modern homes. Good for those who love living with ancient stuff and upkeep them but it's not for me.
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I will hate living in such an old place, I prefer modern homes. Good for those who love living with ancient stuff and upkeep them but it's not for me.
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