At some point in our lives, we have all fantasized about living in a castle, which if our life were a fairy tale. However, The British royal family does not share that dream. Although the Buckingham Palace is famous the official residence of the monarch since the time of Queen Victoria, the monumental residence has never been well received as permanent home for members of the royal family, particularly for the monarch's family in turn.
The disgust by the members of royalty to the historic building has been an open secret for decades. Even in one of the episodes of the first season of The Crown It is mentioned how the then new Queen Elizabeth and Prince Felipe would have preferred to reside in Clarence House and only use the palace for official occasions. The reality is that it was the Prime Minister of Great Britain of that time, Winston Churchill, who urged the young queen to make Buckingham's palace her main residence. Very reluctant, Isabel II accepted. However, it is well known that in recent years at his death, his main place of residence became Windsor Castle and even Balmoral Castle in Scotland, where he finally died in September 2022.
And everything seems to indicate that The story is about to be repeated with King Carlos III and Queen Consort Camilla, because they have resided mainly in Clarence House – the house where Carlos spent his childhood – since 2003, and show no intentions of wanting to move to the spectacular Buckingham Palace.
With a history of centuries, after having finished building built in the third decade of the nineteenth century with famous details of gold bread and being one of the largest real palaces in all of Europe, we could imagine that luxury, elegance and comfort would be the rule in such a building. However, it seems that The years have taken its toll on the castle most famous in Great Britain.
It seems that the palace has a series of failures and impediments that make it extremely difficult to adapt to serve as a modern residence: the wiring, for example, had more than 3 thousand meters of damaged and insecure cables and contacts that had to change in 2017, while the roof has leaks, which have not been able to repair completely to date, so the members of the service of the royal house have to place cubets enclosures under the leaks to prevent puddles. And above, in 2007 there was an incident in which A part of the building's facade came off and was about to fall on Princess Ana.