Learning English Through Story 👍LONDON by John Escott | Chapter 2. Royal London #learningenglish
ROYAL LONDON
Visitors like to see the royal buildings, and sometimes you can go
inside them too.
Buckingham Palace stands at the end of the Mall. The Mall is a
long road, and it begins at Trafalgar Square. About 300 people work
at the palace, because it is the Queen’s home and her ‘oɽce’. Heads
of governments and royal visitors from around the world meet the
Queen here.
At half-past eleven most mornings, the soldiers change the guard
at Buckingham Palace. It takes about thirty minutes, and you can
stand in front of the palace and watch. Hundreds of visitors do this
every day.
In August and September you can usually visit some of the rooms
in the palace, and see paintings by Vermeer, Rembrandt, and
Rubens. You can also visit some of the palace gardens.
The Queen’s Gallery is in Buckingham Palace Road. Here you can
see paintings from all over the world. Next to this is the Royal
Mews, the home of the Queen’s horses and coaches. You can visit
the Queen’s Gallery and the Royal Mews at most times of the year.
Some of the beautiful rooms of Kensington Palace in Kensington
are also open to visitors.
Half an hour by train from the centre of London is Windsor
Castle. You can visit the castle at any time of the year.
Hampton Court stands next to the River Thames in a big park.
This royal palace ɹrst opened to visitors at the time of Queen
Victoria. You can take a train to Hampton Court from Waterloo
Station. Or in the summer months, you can go there along the river
from Westminster Pier.
Then there are the royal parades. On the second Saturday in June,
London celebrates the Queen’s birthday with a big parade – the
Trooping of the Colour. It is not her real birthday – that is in April –
but the weather is usually better in June. In the morning, she goes
from Buckingham Palace to Horse Guards Parade in one of her
coaches. Here soldiers carry the ‘colour’ (a big ɻag) past the Queen.
Thousands of people stand in the Mall and watch the Queen and the
soldiers go past.
The State Opening of Parliament usually happens in November,
because in November the British government begins its work for the year. The Queen travels along the Mall to Westminster in a
wonderful coach, and more than a hundred soldiers go along the
Mall with her.
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