Articles tagged ‘Buckingham Palace’
London’s Top Attractions - Buckingham Palace
By Chris | September 17th, 2007 |
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Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the Queen and the Royal Family, and has been since 1837 when Queen Victoria came to the throne. Its located right in the very heart of London, bordered by Green Park on the north and St James’s Park on the east and is about half a mile [...]
Buckingham Palace State Rooms Summer Opening
By Chris | August 6th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Buckingham Palace is the Queen’s official London residence, located at the end of The Mall on the southern side of Green Park. Since 1993 it has opened up its State Rooms, used by the Royal Family to entertain guests on ceremonial, official and State occasions, to the public for August and September each year while [...]
London Marathon
By Chris | April 18th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
This Sunday 22 April sees the 26th London Marathon take place through the streets of the capital, with almost 50,000 runners entered to take part. The race begins in Greenwich Park/Blackheath and ends on The Mall just down from Buckingham Palace, and on the way goes past many of London’s most famous landmarks on both [...]
Henry’s hands?
By Chris | February 16th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The Arsenal first team squad had a reception with the Queen at Buckingham Palace yesterday after she was unable to attend the official opening of the Emirates Stadium in October due to a back injury. I’m sure the players had an interesting time but its a good job they hadn’t been to the Modern and [...]
Daily Dose 10.25
By Chris | October 25th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
* Richmond’s Liberal Democrat council to charge residents with big cars £750 to park outside their own home(BBCNews)
* London Bombing charity shuts down(SkyNews)
* Royal Free Hospital gets ok to carry out world’s first full face transplant. Pass the sick bag(BBCNews)
* Tony Blair gives ex-flatmate Lord Falconer, who owns six houses, an all expenses paid flat [...]
London top attractions - Changing of the Guard
By Chris | October 19th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Anybody interested in seeing a little bit of British military ceremonial during a visit should go along to Horse Guards Parade as every morning at 11am(sun 10am) there is a changing of the guard by the Queens Life Guard from the Household Cavalry.
