2 men work
full time to look after the three hundred clocks. About seven hundred people
work in Buckingham palace. Buckingham palace was built in 1703 and bought by King George III sixty years later. It is one of the most visited sights of London as it is a royal residence. At 11.30, a picturesque ceremony of the Changing of the Guard takes place there, which attracts a great number of tourists. Buckingham palace faces the Mall and the white marble and gilded Queen Victoria Monument. When Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837 it was almost impossible to live in the Palace. Today The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have private suites in the North Wing, overlooking Green Park. When the Queen is in the Palace, the royal standard flies. Their home is open to around 30,000 quests in summer, attending garden parties. When the Golden Jubilee was celebrated, the gardens of Buckingham Palace were the venue for various events. The gardens have a lake, cascading water and the wild life includes flamingoes, which do not seem to be disturbed by frequent flights of the Queen’s helicopters.
Buckingham Palace is a working setting for the monarchs-with a large staff of people who are busy with various activities from running the household to organizing banquets for visiting VIPs.
According to some sources of information, about 700 people work there. When the Queen gets up in the morning, seven people look after only her. One prepares her bath, one prepares her clothes, and one feed her dogs because the Queen is a great lover of dogs. She has nine dogs call royal dogs. They have their own bathroom near the Queen bathroom. The Queen usually drinks coffee from Harrods and eats toast and eggs. There is even and piper playing Scottish music outside her room while the Queen reads her daily newspaper.
Every Thursday evening she meets the Prime Minister; they talk about world news and have a drink usually gin and wine or whisky. When the Queen invites a lot of people for diner it takes three days to prepare the table and three days to do the washing up. Everybody has five glasses. One for red wine, one for white wine, one for port, one for liqueur and one for water.
TOWER BRIDGE

Tower Bridge, the most famous and distinctive bridge in London, towers over the river Thames. It was completed in 1894 and is 880 feet long.

It is used by car and buses as well as by pedestrians.