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BUCKINGHAM PALACE Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality. It has been a rallying point for the British people at times of national rejoicing and crisis. Originally known as Buckingham House ...

CRYSTAL PALACE The Crystal Palace was a cast-iron and glass building originally erected in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. More than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world gathered in the Palace's 990,000 square feetof exhibition space to display examples of the latest technology in the Industrial Revolution ...

HAMPTON COURT PALACE Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London; it has not been lived in by the British royal family since the 18th century. The palace is located 11.7 miles (18.8 km) south west of Charing Cross and upstream of Central London on the River Thames...

KENSINGTON PALACE Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century. Today it is the official residence of The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester; the Duke and Duchess of Kent ...

KEW PALACE Kew Palace is a British Royal Palace in Kew Gardens, Kew on the banks of the Thames up river from London. There have been at least four Palaces at Kew, and three have been known as Kew Palace, the first building may not have been known as Kew as no records survive other than the words of another courtier ...

QUEEN'S HOUSE The Queen's House, Greenwich, is a former royal residence built between 1614-1617 in Greenwich, then a few miles downriver from London, and now a district of the city. Its architect was Inigo Jones, for whom it was a crucial early commission, for Anne of Denmark, the queen of King James I of England ...

RICHMOND PALACE Richmond Palace was a Thameside royal residence erected around 1501 and occupied by royalty until 1649. It replaced a former manor house that had been appropriated by royalty some two centuries beforehand - being variously adapted to become a palace during that period and occupied by the monarch of the day ...

TOWER OF LONDON Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London (and historically as The Tower), is a historic fortress and scheduled monument in central London on the north bank of the River Thames. It is separated from the eastern edge of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill ...

PALACE OF WESTMINSTER The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is the seat of the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom—the House of Lords and the House of Commons. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames in the heart of the London borough of the City of Westminster ...

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