Comments on: travels: versailles, petit trianon and hamlet https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2015/07/travels-versailles-petit-trianon-and-hamlet/ find joy, be inspired, create beauty Thu, 02 Jul 2015 22:10:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Sandy Snowden https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2015/07/travels-versailles-petit-trianon-and-hamlet/#comment-188056 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 22:10:06 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/?p=7225#comment-188056 Oh my goodness on the train thing!
I had the same sick feeling you mentioned when I went through Buckingham Palace the first time. It was built at a similar period. all that gold covered everything. Probably restrained compared to Versailles.
But you don’t pick your office when it comes to the job, I guess. I understand the actual living quarters of the British Royals are very restrained. Perhaps also explaining why Buckingham Palace is the ‘office’, but the Queen stays at Windsor Castle (when not on Holiday to the other parts of the Kingdom) which still has the Middle Ages feel about it, and the subsequent monarchs could only bling it up a bit.

Loving the tour of France, though!
Sandy in the UK

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