Buckingham Palace
— — the house at the end of the parade.
Not only on a wall.
“The official London residence of the British sovereign since 1837, sitting at the end of a long ceremonial avenue planted with plane trees. The east front, the side everyone knows, was refaced in Portland stone in 1913. The Royal Standard flies above the building when the monarch is in residence; the Union flag flies when they are not. The guards change in the forecourt.
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The place, in three passes.
Buckingham Palace stands in the City of Westminster, at the western end of The Mall and across the road from St James's Park and Green Park. The building has been the official London residence of the British monarch since Queen Victoria moved in on 13 July 1837. The palace holds 775 rooms across roughly 77,000 square metres, including 19 State Rooms, 52 royal and guest bedrooms, and 78 bathrooms. The garden, the largest private garden in London, covers about 39 acres and includes a three-acre lake.
The shell most visitors see is not the original. Buckingham House, a townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703, was bought by George III in 1761 and rebuilt by John Nash for George IV from 1825. The east wing closing the courtyard was added by Edward Blore in 1850. The Caen-stone façade weathered badly in London's coal-smoke air, and in 1913 Sir Aston Webb refaced the east front in Portland stone in a single thirteen-week summer programme while the King was on holiday at Balmoral.
The State Rooms open to public ticketed tours each year from July to September, with shorter winter and spring openings introduced in 2021. Tickets are sold by the Royal Collection Trust and routinely sell out for weekends. The Changing of the Guard takes place in the forecourt at 10:45 most mornings from spring through summer, and on alternate days the rest of the year, weather permitting. The nearest London Underground stations are Victoria, Green Park, and St James's Park.