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Buckingham Palace is to undergo a 10-year refurbishment costing the taxpayer £369m, the Treasury has announced.
The Queen will remain in residence during the work, to begin next April.
Ageing cables, lead pipes, wiring and boilers will be replaced, many for the first time in 60 years, amid fears about potential fire and water damage.
Tony Johnstone-Burt, Master of the Queen's Household, said phased works offered the "best value for money" while keeping the palace running.

The Royal Trustees, who include the prime minister and chancellor, recommended that the works be funded by a temporary increase in the Sovereign Grant.
The grant - which this year totalled nearly £43m - is 15% of the profits from the independent property business Crown Estates, which go to the Treasury.
The trustees say the grant should rise to 25% of the profits for the repairs. This would require MPs' approval.

Away from the splendour of the state rooms, Buckingham Palace shows its age.
It is striking while walking through the back corridors that the overall look is a little shabby.
The refurbishment is clearly long overdue and it appears the building is now at risk from electrics, plumbing and heating barely updated since the 1950s.
Questions will be asked over why the palace has been allowed to get to such a state and whether the enormous estimated costs could have been reduced if services had been regularly updated.
At a briefing on Friday, palace officials were clearly conscious that in times of austerity such expenditure needs to be justified, and they were at pains to do so.
When asked how they thought the public would react, one said they did not know but hoped "it will appeal to their sense of nationhood".

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Biggest Council house in the UK. They say the Queen isn't moving out while the work is taking place. She's only there a few days a year. More press bollox.

How many then?

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Grandad,

Money well spent.

God bless her.

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IDFIMH

A tender has been put in from "Von Windsor Hater" ltd

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

oh yes very well known Irish firm of contractors

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

2-3 days a year.

last year she spent the following number of nights in each palace.
Buckingham palace 88
Windsor Castle 159
Sandringham 54
Balmoral 58
Holyroodhouse 4

The remaining nights were spent elsewhere in the Commonwealth.
She usually stays at Buckingham Palace on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday nights with Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Nights at Windsor.

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Grandad,

That's what they want you to believe. It's come from good authority (Queens Guard) that she only spends 2-3 nights a year there. After all the Queens Guard are told when she's in residence hence the name Queens Guard.

Tell them who own that website that their figures are wrong.

That fails to take account of the Prime Ministers weekly audiences.

What about all the others she owns?

You and your conspiracy theorist buddies. You will be telling me next that the Royal standard that flies above the palace when the queen is in residence is also a rouse to fool us into thinking that she is there.
That Michael Fagin must have been really lucky to choose one of only 2 or 3 nights that she was there.

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Grandad,

no charge for the programmed SEMTEX

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last year she spent the following number of nights in each palace.
Buckingham palace 88
Windsor Castle 159
Sandringham 54
Balmoral 58
Holyroodhouse 4

The remaining nights were spent elsewhere in the Commonwealth.
She usually stays at Buckingham Palace on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday nights with Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Nights at Windsor.[/quote][/quote][/quote]


WE KNOW

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F88K EM ALL WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

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