1. Buckingham Palace

2. 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.

3. Buckingham House, c.1710, was designed by William Winde for the 1st Duke of Buckingham.

4. Buckingham Palace became the principal royal residence in 1837.

5. Queen Victoria, the first monarch to reside at Buckingham Palace, moved into the newly completed palace upon her coronation in 1837.

6. The Palace measures 108 metres by 120 metres, is 24 metres high and contains 77,000 square metres of floorspace

7. The Queen's Breakfast Room

8. The Ballroom is the largest room at Buckingham Palace.
This picture dates from 1856.

9. Guests ascending the Grand Staircase in 1870.

10. Buckingham Palace panorama, 1909

11. The east front of Buckingham Palace was completed in 1850, seen here in 1910
...it was remodelled to its present form in 1913.

12. The Victoria Memorial was created by sculptor Sir Thomas Brock in 1911 and erected in front of the main gates at Buckingham Palace

13. The west facade of Buckingham Palace seen from the Palace Gardens.

14. The Royal Family on the balcony in 1986

15. Ceremony of the Changing of the Guard

16. Buckingham Palace in the 21st century

17. The End