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All The Notable Rooms In Buckingham Palace And What Happens In Them
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The Basement
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What happens here: The royals get cash out of the ATM and maybe use secret tunnels to visit other royal hot spots.
Notable events: Since 2001, princely pounds have been dispensed from an ATM in the royal basement. Tunnels also allegedly link BP to Whitehall, Parliament, and Clarence House, and maybe even the tube! Rumor has it that the Queen's parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, once explored the basement and stumbled across a squatter.
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The King's Library
What happens here: Reading!
Notable events: George III collected thousands of books that he stored here. John Adams even visited here. The collection includes a Gutenberg Bible and an early printing of The Canterbury Tales, but later the volumes were donated to the British Museum.
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The Throne Room
What goes on here: The Queen receives important visitors.
Notable events: Prince William and Kate Middleton, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, took their formal wedding pictures here in 2011. The Queen only sat on the official throne once at her coronation but she and Philip each have their own monogrammed chairs that look a bit comfier. Queen Victoria's oldest daughter, also named Victoria, was also christened in the Throne Room in 1841.
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The Centre Room
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What goes down in here: Official appearances on the adjoining balcony.
Notable events: The royals love appearing and waving to the public here. Some of the most notable occasions include Prince William and Kate's blissful marital kiss, the Trooping of the Color every year, and Charles and Diana's post-wedding appearance.
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Elizabeth And Philip's (Separate) Bedrooms
What happens here: Sleep, and maybe a little bit more.
Notable events: The Queen and Prince Philip sleep in separate bedrooms, which we only found out once an intruder broke in in 1982. That doesn't mean their marriage is in trouble, however, as that's something that's just characteristic of upper-crust Brits. Other accounts state they share a bed many nights, but split bedrooms if one has to get up early. Philip also likes sleeping with the window open all year around, so he gets his own (cold) room.
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The Ballroom
What happens here: Banquets for important dignitaries on the first night of state visits.
Notable events: In 2011, American President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, along with Hollywood stars like Tom Hanks and Helena Bonham Carter, attended a beautiful banquet in the ballroom. The Queen also invests British citizens with honors, such as various Orders of the British Empire or knighthoods, in this room. In 2016, the ballroom was used as a space to exhibit the Queen's many notable outfits by British designers.
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The White Drawing Room
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The Corgis' Room
What happens here: The Queen's beloved pets, her Corgis and Dorgis (Dachshund-Corgi mixes), eat and sleep in their own room.
Notable events: The dogs eat custom gourmet meals off silver platters and sleep in special wicker baskets that are raised off the floor so they don't get cold. They even get their sheets changed every day! The footmen take them for morning walks before Her Majesty takes them for a stroll.
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The Picture Gallery
What goes on here: The family and visitors alike admire precious paintings.
Notable events: After exiting the ballroom, visitors stroll through this pink gallery and can admire the priceless portraits on the walls, which are always in rotation. The painters who are featured include van Dyck, Rubens, Vermeer, and many other masters. The Queen's granddaughter, Princess Eugenie of York, and her fiancé, Jack Brooksbank, took their engagement pictures in the Picture Gallery in January of 2018.
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The Crimson Drawing Room
What goes down in here: Relaxing.
Notable events: It was Queen Charlotte's drawing room in the 1760s. It's filled with masterpieces by Rubens and van Dyck.
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The Grand Staircase
What happens here: Enter the State Rooms by descending this velvet-carpeted staircase.
Notable events: Designed by John Nash in 1825, the staircase is a sight to behold. The Queen and Prince Philip posed at the top of it for photos in their youth, and Queen Victoria and Prince Consort Albert regularly strolled down it together. Albert also met the King of Saxony and the Russian Tsar on this staircase.
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The Queen's Breakfast Room
What happens here: Breakfast, and other meals if the royals are feeling wild.
Notable events: Queen Charlotte ate her breakfast here, surrounded by an a big porcelain collection she had assembled.
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The Green Closet
What goes down in here: Looking at more pretty pictures.
Notable events: This room played host to Queen Charlotte's favorite paintings by Gainsborough and portraits of her kids.
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The Second Drawing Room
