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Buckingham Palace

noun

  1. a residence of the British sovereigns since 1837, in London, England: built 1703.
  2. the reigning British monarch or the royal family:

    Buckingham Palace has denied the rumor.



Buckingham Palace

noun

  1. the London residence of the British sovereign: built in 1703, rebuilt by John Nash in 1821–36 and partially redesigned in the early 20th century


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On Friday, the story had looked like it might blow over as Buckingham Palace sought to dismiss it as a “civil case.”

Even the queen saw fit to honor him with the Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace in 2008.

But on Friday, she attended an investiture at Buckingham Palace and was granted a private audience by the Queen.

Fergie almost landed a U.N. role until the offer was swiftly dropped, amid rumours both of pressure from Buckingham Palace.

The comedian Stephen Fry as admitted taking cocaine in Buckingham Palace at the height of his drug addiction.

The glass in the roof of the picture-gallery at Buckingham Palace was totally destroyed; the damage was estimated at 2000.

Of all places for such a clandestine encounter she had chosen the bridge opposite Buckingham Palace.

Before he could gather together his forces it had arrived beneath the awning of the Buckingham Palace Hotel.

And she says, too, that she has never been hustled and crushed when she has gone to Buckingham Palace.

There was a bank of clouds over Buckingham Palace, with the red sun smouldering just behind their edges.

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