Buckingham Palace is the Queen’s official residence, with 775 rooms, 78 bathrooms, and 240 bedrooms. Originally built in 1703, it became a royal palace in the 1820s. It has 760 windows, 1,514 doors, and features a chapel, cinema, swimming pool, and post office. The palace has a 40-acre garden with over 350 types of wildflowers and 30 bird species. Over 800 people work there, including an official watchmaker.
Buckingham Palace, England, is the Queen’s official residence, and the 775-room palace has 78 bathrooms. It was originally built in 1703 as a home for the Duke of Buckingham, but wasn’t built into a royal palace until the 1820s for King George IV. The total area of Buckingham Palace is 828,821 square feet (77,000 sq m) and it stands 78 feet (24m) high. Two hundred and forty of Buckingham Palace’s rooms are bedrooms (52 for members and guests of the royal family and 188 for resident staff). The palace contains 760 windows and 1,514 doors and includes a chapel, cinema, swimming pool and even its own post office.
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The lot for which Buckingham Palace was built was originally a mulberry garden created by King James I in the early 1600s for the purpose of rearing silkworms.
Over 800 people work as staff at Buckingham Palace, including an official watchmaker – the palace houses over 350 clocks and watches, one of the largest collections in the world.
Buckingham Palace’s 40-acre garden contains over 350 types of wildflowers and 30 different bird species.
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