Buckingham Palace

There are two addresses in London that the whole world knows. One is 10 Downing Street, where the Prime Minister lives. The other is Buckingham

Palace. This famous place, first built in 1703, is in the very centre of London.

It is two places, not one. It is a family house, where the children play and grow up. Buckingham Palace is like a small town, with a police station, two post

offices, a hospital, two sport clubs, a disco, a cinema and a swimming pool.

There are 600 rooms and three miles of a red carpet. About 700 people work in the Palace.

When the Queen gets up in the morning, seven people look after her. One starts her bath, one prepares clothes and one feeds the Royal dogs and the sleep in the own bedroom near the Queen bedroom. She has eight or nine dogs. Two people bring her breakfast. Every Tuesday, she meets the Prime Minister

When the Queen invites a lot of people for dinner, it takes three days to prepare the table and three days to wash up. Everybody has five glasses:

one for red wine, one for water, one for port and one for liqueur. During

the first and the second courses she speaks to the person on the left and

then she speak to the person on her right. When the Queen finishes her

food, everybody finishes and it is time for the next course.