1. The palace was not officially set a dress code, but no single person who visits with faded jeans, too. Most people who were invited to Buckingham Palace in the daytime would wear a work uniform or a suit. While at night, depending on the level of formality, the visitors will wear a tie men black or white. If the men wore white tie, then the women will wear a tiara.
2. A ritual that must be done every day, although on Christmas day was cleaning gravel (gravel) from the palace courtyard. Gravel is cleaned and trimmed by machine supplies every morning. Later in the afternoon, will be held again two inspections, on guard not to be seen popping up trash. So you need not be surprised if you see the yard that always looks smooth.
3. The place where once stood a Buckingham Palace garden mulberry (mulberry) planted by King James I, a king who ruled for book lovers in 1603 until 1625. King James also menternak silkworms in the palace. However, James chose the mulberry bush is wrong so that his efforts in vain.
4. Although his name is Buckingham Palace, this place used to be only a 'foundation' for the aristocracy. The name of this place are given in the 18th century by Tory politicians: John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave and Marquess of Normanby third, which is the Duke of Buckingham in 1703. The nobility is also building a place called Buckingham House for itself as a gathering place for luxury in London.
5. Virtuoso architect John Nash later changed Buckingham House into Buckingham Palace in the 1820s. First to use the monarchy as the official home creations Nash was Queen Victoria who moved here in 1837. Ancestors of Victoria, William IV, consider this as the slums - as the British say, and instead settled on a more general place of Clarence House on The Mall.
6. Buckingham Palace is the design is actually more radical than what you imagine. Some rooms are themed Chinese culture. Some of the furnishings and decor borrowed from the oriental style of brave Prince Regent Brighton Pavilion. But then was sold by Queen Victoria to finance the construction of Buckingham Palace.
7. Monarchy was the only one who was born and died at Buckingham Palace was Edward VII, the smoker who is also creator of peace, who lived from 1841 to 1910. If you say Edward need to go out of his cage more often, he will find it hard to find a place so central and attract attention. If you live in the palace, you will also be able to feel the heartbeat of the city of London.
2. A ritual that must be done every day, although on Christmas day was cleaning gravel (gravel) from the palace courtyard. Gravel is cleaned and trimmed by machine supplies every morning. Later in the afternoon, will be held again two inspections, on guard not to be seen popping up trash. So you need not be surprised if you see the yard that always looks smooth.
3. The place where once stood a Buckingham Palace garden mulberry (mulberry) planted by King James I, a king who ruled for book lovers in 1603 until 1625. King James also menternak silkworms in the palace. However, James chose the mulberry bush is wrong so that his efforts in vain.
4. Although his name is Buckingham Palace, this place used to be only a 'foundation' for the aristocracy. The name of this place are given in the 18th century by Tory politicians: John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave and Marquess of Normanby third, which is the Duke of Buckingham in 1703. The nobility is also building a place called Buckingham House for itself as a gathering place for luxury in London.
5. Virtuoso architect John Nash later changed Buckingham House into Buckingham Palace in the 1820s. First to use the monarchy as the official home creations Nash was Queen Victoria who moved here in 1837. Ancestors of Victoria, William IV, consider this as the slums - as the British say, and instead settled on a more general place of Clarence House on The Mall.
6. Buckingham Palace is the design is actually more radical than what you imagine. Some rooms are themed Chinese culture. Some of the furnishings and decor borrowed from the oriental style of brave Prince Regent Brighton Pavilion. But then was sold by Queen Victoria to finance the construction of Buckingham Palace.
7. Monarchy was the only one who was born and died at Buckingham Palace was Edward VII, the smoker who is also creator of peace, who lived from 1841 to 1910. If you say Edward need to go out of his cage more often, he will find it hard to find a place so central and attract attention. If you live in the palace, you will also be able to feel the heartbeat of the city of London.
