UK-Historic and contemporary royal palaces, residences, estates, castles

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LouisFerdinand

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December 24, 2023, 07:01:03 PM
Inside Sandringham, Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 10 March 1888   
Inside Sandringham stock image | Look and Learn

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LouisFerdinand

#205
February 22, 2024, 08:41:14 PM
The King's Library, Octagon Room in Buckingham Palace     
http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/XJ100579

PrincessOfPeace

#206
February 24, 2024, 02:10:13 PM
Sandringham House is filled with the spirit of the King's gentle - and very English - grandfather, George VI, writes HUGO VICKERS. No wonder Charles has gone there there to recuperate -


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13077913/Sandringham-House-spirit-Kings-gentle-grandfather.html

LouisFerdinand

#207
February 24, 2024, 10:14:27 PM
It is nice that King Charles III feels a closeness to King George VI at Sandringham House.   
I like the idea of Charles laying down rugs which had been hidden away.       
I like the idea he is working with the gardens.

PrincessOfPeace

#208
March 10, 2024, 11:35:59 AM
Buckingham Palace gates are boarded up after driver crashed into them in late-night smash which saw armed police yell 'keep your hands on your head'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13179109/Dramatic-moment-car-crashes-Buckingham-Palace-gates-armed-police-yell-hands-head-driver-arrested.html

Blue Clover

#209
March 11, 2024, 01:02:41 AM
Quote from: LouisFerdinand on February 24, 2024, 10:14:27 PM
It is nice that King Charles III feels a closeness to King George VI at Sandringham House.   
I like the idea of Charles laying down rugs which had been hidden away.       
I like the idea he is working with the gardens.

This is very nice.

LouisFerdinand

#210
March 17, 2024, 02:12:10 AM
Kensington Palace - Behind Closed Doors   
https://www.ok.ru/video/5652620053039

PrincessOfPeace

#211
April 02, 2024, 09:16:09 PM
King Charles is allowing tours of the inside of Balmoral Castle near Ballater, Aberdeenshire, for the first time ever - costing £150 with afternoon tea -

https://www.thesun.co.uk/royals/27070895/king-charles-lets-tourists-inside-balmoral-aberdeenshire/

Curryong

#212
April 02, 2024, 10:56:59 PM
That is indeed a hefty price, especially if you have a family and want afternoon tea. And while many tourists will of course gulp and pay it, many won't, and I really can't see too many Scots themselves coughing up that amount.

Plus, the main objection to Charles making a sum that will really help with the maintenance of Balmoral Castle is the fact that few tourists to the UK and even fewer Scots wish to travel up north between the months of October and Easter time of the following year.

That's a long time for a hefty piece of 19th century stone architecture to be left empty, together with the cottages for hire on the estate. The further north you go in Scotland, the more dire the weather in the colder months and that's a fact.

The only way to 'cure' it would be to put the castle on wheels and trundle it down to London for the winter, lol. Otherwise, well, at the above prices it might show a profit at the height of the summer season but otherwise No.

PrincessOfPeace

#213
April 03, 2024, 12:21:39 PM
The newly reserviced East Wing of Buckingham Palace is to open for public tours for the first time this summer -

https://www.rct.uk/event/the-state-rooms-and-east-wing-highlights-tour-07-2024

PrincessOfPeace

#214
April 03, 2024, 02:21:33 PM
What visitors on £100 Balmoral tours will see: Tourists can wander Drawing Room - filled with centuries-old heirlooms - where the late Queen was photographed days before she died, as well as Page's Lobby and 'red corridor' where Rishi met the King -

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13267337/Balmoral-new-tour-drawing-room-Queen-Victoria.html

PrincessOfPeace

#215
April 03, 2024, 02:41:00 PM
Balmoral Castle's website has crashed after it announced it would be opening its doors to the public for the first time this summer.

Tickets start at £100 - but the website can't keep up with demand as just 40 tickets are up for grabs each day -

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1884349/balmoral-castle-tickets-tour

Curryong

#217
April 03, 2024, 08:52:37 PM
Quote from: PrincessOfPeace on April 03, 2024, 02:41:00 PMBalmoral Castle's website has crashed after it announced it would be opening its doors to the public for the first time this summer.

Tickets start at £100 - but the website can't keep up with demand as just 40 tickets are up for grabs each day -

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1884349/balmoral-castle-tickets-tour

Yes, with the operative word being summer (and early autumn.) We'll see in the future how many visitors venture up to the Scottish Highlands in November, December, Jan and Feb.

TLLK

#218
April 03, 2024, 10:49:03 PM
Quote from: PrincessOfPeace on April 03, 2024, 02:41:00 PMBalmoral Castle's website has crashed after it announced it would be opening its doors to the public for the first time this summer.

Tickets start at £100 - but the website can't keep up with demand as just 40 tickets are up for grabs each day -

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1884349/balmoral-castle-tickets-tour

What a fantastic opportunity for tourists to visit this historic royal site that has been the private holiday home for generations.

Curryong

#221
April 15, 2024, 10:06:46 PM
Quote from: PrincessOfPeace on April 15, 2024, 06:34:59 PMWhy the royals are no fans of Buckingham Palace... and what it's really like to live there - as revealed by HUGO VICKERS:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-13296929/British-Monarchy-Royal-Family-Buckingham-Palace-little-better-draughty-Edwardian-hotel-says-HUGO-VICKERS.html

BP was disliked by the Royals long before any resemblance with draughty Edwardian hotels have been made. (And actually I have stayed in several hotels of that era that have been cosy and comfortable.) Kings George IV and William IV never really lived there, though inevitably George IV wanted the architecture changed.

The young Queen Victoria and Albert loathed the place. The rooms were small and inconvenient and there weren't enough connecting passageways. It would have been cold in those days before central heating, (Albert felt the cold, Victoria didn't)  there were few bathrooms, and when it rained some gutters overflowed directly onto the windows of rooms underneath.

It would have been very cold during WW2 when fuel rationing was in place, and in fact the only royal I know of who didn't mind living there was King Edward VII, who spent a lot of time after the London Season at house parties in the country. Alexandra preferred Sandringham. So BP has been unpopular for centuries.

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