Buckingham Palace
Royal residence with 775 rooms, opulent state rooms open to visitors, and the world's most-watched changing of the guard.
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This guide to Buckingham Palace begins outside the most famous address in Britain, then goes back to one December night in 1838, when fourteen-year-old Edward Jones slipped inside while Queen Victoria slept upstairs. You'll hear how staff finally caught him and what he told them about why he'd come. Along the way it touches on the east wing's 1847 expansion, the balcony first used in 1851, and the conservators still keeping the palace running today.
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