Standing in the doorway and feeling emotional, I walked towards Buckingham Palace, intending to take a walk outside the walls and take some pictures, just like the people who had flocked to Buckingham Palace before.

Buckingham Palace is only open from July to September every year, and it's June, so it's hard to enter. Every year from July to September is the time when the Queen of England goes out for vacation and escapes the summer, and only at this time is the British patriarch willing to open the house for those who are very curious about the royal family to come in and have a look, and by the way, collect some admission money to supplement the family.

Yes, you read that right, don't doubt your eyes, it's to supplement the home. Don't look at the British royal family, it seems that the family has a big business, but most of the assets are land, in other words, real estate, and it is the kind that cannot be sold. At the same time, the British government does not care about the money for the maintenance of Buckingham Palace every year, and the British royal family is responsible for all of it. So the Queen of England came up with such a trick, opening Buckingham Palace and using the ticket money to offset part of the maintenance costs.

I didn't ask Flower to accompany him, but asked him to find a hotel or a café on the street to stay on. This old man has been fighting between the upper and lower eyelids since he came out of the royal guard, and if he is allowed to go in with me, it is estimated that it will not be him who takes me, but I will have to take care of him.

At first, Flower refused, and insisted on doing so. After a few words of persuasion, I gave up the idea, and the superego waved his hand and swayed to a café down the street.

Looking at Flower's back, I couldn't help but shout worriedly: "You take it easy, if you want to sleep, you can sleep later." ”

It wasn't until I watched Flower approach the café that I walked towards Buckingham Palace. I'm going to start from the main entrance, because there are guards who can't get too close, so I can only keep a street away from Buckingham Palace.

I didn't go far when a middle-aged white man with a bag mysteriously approached me and whispered, "Brother, do you want a explainer?" Interpreter at Buckingham Palace. ”

I was stunned for a moment, not hearing the white man's words, "What? ”

The white man smiled mysteriously, like some kind of vendor on the streets of China who sells CDs with indescribable content, "The docent of Buckingham Palace is used in any version, English, Chinese, Japanese." Guaranteed exactly as those guys offer. Now they don't rent it, it's not me who brags about it, at this time, I'm the only one in all of London. ”

I do know that Buckingham Palace, like the British Museum, offers docents and is available in multiple languages. But I didn't expect this thing to be a copycat, obviously, this guy's business is aimed at tourists like me who don't come to London during Buckingham Palace opening hours and can't get into Buckingham Palace, but don't give up.

This is undoubtedly a great temptation for casual tourists without a guide. Different from the natural scenery and beauty, the scenic spots linked to history, explanation is an indispensable thing, if you don't have an understanding of the foundation of history, just walk around and look around, it is very fun to experience a point or two at most.

For example, I also traveled to the imperial capital, and today I went to Xiangshan and saw the sunset, even if I can't think of the high-level sentence of Luoxia and Lonely Bird Qi Fei, I can pretend to be a wave of force, but I also know how beautiful this word is, which does not affect the experience and mood. Then Ming'er went to the National Museum with a different route, and he didn't do his homework in advance and didn't have a tour guide with him, so he was a bunch of laymen. Seeing those porcelain, those cloths, those calligraphy and paintings, not to mention anything else, just those words on the calligraphy can make you stunned for a long time, and you can't recognize a few words in the end.

At this time, the white man silently opened a commentator, and there was a clear introduction to Buckingham Palace from the commentator.

I gritted my teeth, "How do you sell it?" ”

The white man smiled even brighter, "Fifteen pounds a piece, with a small map of Buckingham Palace." Which language would you like it to be in? ”

"Give me a Chinese one."

I silently took out my wallet and bought a docent. Then he took the guide and map from the white man's hand, and continued to walk forward with the guide in one hand and the small map in the other.

Don't look at the current Buckingham Palace is the official residence of the British king, but the original Buckingham Palace was not built by the British royal family, but by Buckingham and John, Duke of Normanby? Sheffield was built between 1703 and 1705 when Buckingham Palace was used as a large town hall building. This is also the main building of Buckingham Palace today. In 1761, George III bought Buckingham Palace for more than 30,000 pounds, and by the way, he gave it to his wife, and by the way, it was also regarded as one of his bedrooms.

Originally, the historical status of Buckingham Palace was here, but after the good death, there was a funny king named Edward, who didn't know whether he was dissatisfied with his predecessor or unaccustomed to Buckingham Palace, and suddenly wanted to use Buckingham Palace as a place to raise silkworms! It is said that at that time, the sign of the larval breeding base of the fluttering moth in London, England was ready, and it was almost hung on the gate of Buckingham Palace. Later, because I got the wrong variety, I had to stop it. But this also sounded the alarm for the later king of England, damn what if my descendants also have this kind of teasing, my dormitory to him turned into a breeding base, isn't this a loss of face for the king? So in 1837, after Queen Victoria ascended the throne, the queen declared Buckingham Palace to be the official residence of the British king.

In other words, the queen is announcing the whole world and her descendants, this is the palace where the British king lives! It's not an animal breeding base! Don't always try to make big news out of me!

Moving on to serious ......

Buckingham Palace is actually far from as glorious as the Forbidden City in China or the Kremlin in Moscow, after all, one of them went to the large town hall building at the beginning, and the other two went to the palace for the emperor at the beginning, and the starting point was different.

From the outside, the architecture of Buckingham Palace is quaint and simple. The milky white walls and the thick columns of the two people hugging each other even glowed with a yellow that would obviously appear after a long period of time.

"Hey, hey."

Just as I was looking at the buildings standing quietly in the distance in the wall, a crisp voice suddenly came from in front of me, and I looked in the direction from which the sound came, it was a little Lori with blond hair and blue eyes in a dress.

Little Lori was lying on her stomach in the gap between the two fences, looking at me with a palm-sized face, "Are you from outside?" Is it fun outside? ”

"Outside?"

I was stunned.

Little Lori pursed her lips, "You're so stupid, it's just outside the wall, I've never been out yet, my teacher said it's fun outside, but my mother told me it's not fun outside at all." Is it fun out there? ”

Without waiting for me to speak, Little Lori suddenly turned her head to look behind her, then smiled and waved her hand at me, "I'll go first, it's time for class." By the way, my name is Margaret, don't forget! ”

I breathed a sigh of relief, Margaret, she didn't look like a princess.

Although I don't know much about the British royal family, I also know that the entire British royal family is still in the Lori stage, and there is only one Princess Charlotte born to Princess Kate.

As for this cute Lori named Margaret, maybe it's the child of some kind of staff in Buckingham Palace, after all, people who work in Buckingham Palace can also live in Buckingham Palace.