Buckingham Palace...
I actually felt sort of weird being there. I didn't know which was stranger: 1) A bunch of people taking pictures of a families house. I mean, they're just people in a big house who really have no power or authority anymore; or, 2) I wondered what it would be like to have people outside your house ALL THE TIME taking pictures of it. At some point you must feel like an animal trapped in your cage. I don't know, it just seemed odd at the time.
Anyway, apparently the palace was originally known as Buckingham House. The building which forms the palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703 on a site which had been in private ownership for at least 150 years. It was subsequently acquired by George III in 1761 as a private residence for Queen Charlotte, and known as "The Queen's House". Buckingham Palace did not became the official royal palace of the British monarch until the accession of Queen Victoria (picutred above) in 1837.
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