🤣 luv it well said

Not unlike many people's homes.

@Chuck's poke Yes, but not just any old stuff. It's 18th century hand painted.

@Chuck's poke I believe there are several ways, but often a very fine, light fabric will be put on the wall first and the paper applied over that. Then when it needs to be moved the fabric is peeled off the wall, not the paper, reducing the risk to the paper itself. It can also be applied to a thin wooden frame with the space between the paper and the wall padded. It's a very specialised art to move something so fine and delicate. The paper at the Palace is all hand painted and none of the scenes are repeated. I'm always in awe of people who can do such clever things. The paper in the Yellow Drawing Room has had a couple of moves in 200 plus years. It's currently in store and being restored while the east wing of the Palace is being renovated.

@Chuck's poke Happy to help. I agree about silk on the wall. Nothing better. William Morris was famous for his wallpaper designs, but would never have wallpaper in his own home, considering it something temporary. He always used embroidered hangings.

What the US fails to realise is that the BRITISH TAX-PAYER pays for ALL these furbelows, original cost, insurance etc etc etc......

@ And what they also don't know is that it belongs to the British state. They also don't know, and probably don't care, that unlike the American presidency, our monarchy isn't funded by the taxpayer, but by a percentage of the income of the private crown estate, which in 800 years has never been in public ownership. The Queen surrenders the entire income, which last year was £360 million and after giving The Queen the Sovereign Grant, the government keeps the balance. Last year that was just over £320 million. Compare that to America, where just the cost of Air Force 1 flights for the president to weekend in Florida cost the American taxpayers nearly 100 million dollars, whilst one presidential inaugural costs about three times the amount it takes to run the monarchy for a year. Add to that the approximately £150 million a year that the Royal Family helps to raise for charity, all without being paid and all paying income tax, and I think Americans may have quite a surprise. Add to that the approximately £1.5 billion which is the estimate that the National Audit Office says that the monarchy brings into the National exchequer and I suspect that Americans will be shocked and perhaps would like a self funded Head of State who also funds the taxpayer.

@Heather Webster hardly anyone speaks like that. He could have easily played a part us one of the Queen courtiers in the Netflix series, The Crown.

Scagliola?? Faux Marbre perhaps but Fake Marble to us plebs.

He does start his sentences very well, but tails off the last half. I had to turn on the captions to get the full story. And the captions are a joke in themselves.

Hypnotic cadence.

Zero I'm afraid.

ASMR?

IndigoRoseDiaries. autonomous sensory meridian response)

It's total staff is between 300 and 350.

I was just thinking that, looking through the book, which arrived this morning.

I don't know but you can probably find out - go to www.rct.uk/collection/search and enter Edward VII as 'subject' and have a look...

I expect you think that you are hilarious. As it happens, there is a rumour that when the Shah of Persia visited Buckingham Palace in 1873, one of his servants annoy him so he had the man killed and buried in the garden.

Probably in the dungeon.

Yes it will change to something like CIIIR unless he takes the regnal name of George as it has been rumoured he might then it will be GVIIR

@@pedanticradiator1491 that's a lot of repainting and it looks like complicated work not something you'd send just anyone to do especially the ceilings. I think you're right, although kings who have been named George haven't always had the best reputations.

@@julianczer939 they wont repaint every EIIR cypher and there are many buildings etc in the UK with the cypher of earlier monarchs on them

@@pedanticradiator1491 that makes sense. I was just wondering because that would be a lot of work and the paint job is very precise so it would have to be something done with great care.

Size isn't the deciding factor.

Ok, thank u for letting me know that because I was thinking that he Leopold was Albert's brother.

There are quite a few of his clocks. There also some at Windsor Castle.

I know he had a lot of clocks but I'm talking about the one with everything on it.

@@delillablanton4994 I think that's at Windsor.

Prince Alberts brother was Ernest-Leopold was brother to their father.

That's the usual very common misconception. The Sovereign Grant that the government gives The Queen is a percentage of the income of the private Crown Estate. The government keeps the balance which is more than £320 million a year. The fact is that The Queen gives money to the taxpayers.

Jealous much?

Just normal, comfortable rooms. No one lives in the state apartments.

@@mustangsally5426 how is this jealousy? what

David Taylor - but this is the core of “Western Civilization”! How can it be boring??

@@susiefisch The narrator is boring, not Buckingham palace. It's a building, not a cornerstone of Western civilization, and its contents are basically dry goods, furniture, not priceless holy artifacts.

@@davidtaylor4071 well listen to it while trying to fall asleep. It’ll probably bore you into a deep sleep

My nanny said that anyone who says that they are bored is boring themselves.