Buckingham Palace



Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace is the official residence of the Britain monarchs since 1837 till present time. John Sheffield was the one who built the house around 1703 as his London home. The house has accessibility to St. Jame’s Palace because of the reason George III bought the house for his family, especially for queen Charlotte soon it became Queen’s house. During George IV term it official became Buckingham Palace in 1820’s. Queen Victoria was the first monarch to use the palace as the official residence of the Britain.
                                      
There were a lot of Architects involved in the process building or renovation of the Palace. John Nash was one of the architects who started working in the palace around1825 but did not fare so well. Prince regent wants to create a place on the site of the Duke of Buckingham’s former villa, however; Prince died before the work was finished and Nash was dismissed from the project. After John Nash British architect Edward Blore completed the palace and designed the great façade facing the mall. During the Second World War the Palace was attacked nine bomb hits. William Winde continued to do the work but he received death threats from the royal’s he backed off. After William architect Aston Webb completed the Neo Classical white Portland stone façade in 1913. 

 

The palace architecture style is Neoclassical style because only high end people and royals were staying in the palace there were a lot of expensive interior designs and collections. The palace has 600 rooms ,188 stuff bedrooms, 92 offices and 78 bathrooms. The best part in the palace is the balcony where the royal’s gathers to celebrate an occasions. More than 50000 people visits the palace each year for work and gatherings.





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