Palaces & Buildings

The Queen's guards perform Bon Jovi's 'Livin' on a Prayer' outside Buckingham Palace

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28th February 2020
The Queen’s guards performed a special medley of Bon Jovi hits on Friday morning outside of Buckingham Palace. The Band of the Household Guard performed some of the rock band’s most famous tunes, including Livin’ on a Prayer, It’s My Life and You Give Love A Bad Name. 🎺Guard Change at Buckingham Palace!Today the @ScotsGuardsBand played a special @BonJovi medley to…
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Embarrassment at Buckingham Palace as The Royal Family's official website links to pornography page with live sex shows

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17th February 2020
There is embarrassment at Buckingham Palace tonight after The Royal Family’s official website accidentally sent readers to a Chinese pornography site broadcasting live sex shows. The website’s charity page, which lists the different patronages members of The Royal Family are connected to, often hyperlinks to external websites. However, when clicking on the link of a Welsh charity…
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Kensington Palace to bring royal history to life with after-hours theatre

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3rd January 2020
Theatregoers with a taste for royal history are in for a treat when theatre company Les Enfants Terribles, in conjunction with Historic Royal Palaces, present the show United Queendom at quite an unusual venue: a royal palace. Kensington Palace will open its doors after dark from February 28 through March 30 for the special performances of the play, which focuses on the relationship between…
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Taking a look at Frankenstein Castle

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30th October 2019
Frankenstein Castle, or what remains of it, is located in Hesse, Germany, on the outskirts of Darmstadt and 35 kilometres south of Frankfurt. The name of the ruins come from the suspicion that the castle served as the inspiration for Mary Shelley’s famous work…
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Palace of Russian Tsar to reopen

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28th October 2019
A Russian imperial residence is to reopen following extensive rehabilitation. This is the Alexander Palace in St Petersburg which over the past three years has been renovated for more than £24 million (or 31 million US dollars or 2 billion Russian rubles). The palace was the last home of Tsar Nicholas II before he was executed along with his family. It was from the Alexander Palace that the Tsar…
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