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History
Originally the Buckingham palace was known as the Bakingem-house and was under construction for the duke Buckingham (since 1703). It has been got by king George III in 1762 as the future private residence of the monarch (the official residence the Sent-Dzhejmssky palace has ceased suit it both size, and furnish). Within the next 75 years architects John Nash and Edward Blor (the author of the Alupkinsky palace), taking for a basis the Bakingem-house, have constructed three more similar buildings. All together form in the plan a square, in which centre — the big courtyard.

[Now the palace includes 600 rooms, occupies territory of 20 hectares, from them of 17 hectares — a garden. Gardens of the Buckingham palace — the greatest private gardens in London, have originally been broken by great Lanselotom Brown, but later are redistributed by William Ejltonom and John Nash. The big artificial pond has been finished in 1828.

The western facade of a palace. In a palace the art meeting of the queen with Rembrandt, Rubens's works settles down, etc. In a collection there is also French севрский a porcelain, the French and English furniture. The palace has pool, mail, and also own cinema. For two summer months (August and September) the queen leaves the Buckingham palace. These months smart rooms of a palace are opened for visitors.

Palace ballroom in 1856. The palace has been officially declared by the main residence of the British monarchs at the introduction on a throne of queen Victoria in 1837. In its board last big additions, construction of one more wing and transferring of the former main entrance, the Marble arch, on a present place near the Oratorical corner in Gajd-park have been made. Before palace collars there is a monument in honour of queen Victoria.

Building cost has reached 700 000 pounds for the account to use of such excesses, as 500 blocks каррарского marble with proveins. By 1853 the most spacious and richly trimmed premise of a palace — a ballroom has been finished. King Edward VII was born in this palace in 1841 here again has died in 1910

Despite роскошество palace apartments where the set of the family jewelry is stored, not all living in it were happy. In the memoirs the duke Windsor wrote that the huge palace «with the big halls and infinite corridors seemed the filled smell of a mould which I feel till now every time when I enter into it».