BuckinghamPalace, the best known royal palace in the world, is ()____in Central London.the palace takes ()_____ name from the house ()____ was built in 1703. Sixtyyears later it was bought by King George III for his wife, Queen Charlotte andbecame known ()___ the queen’s house. JohnNash, the royal architect, ()____ it into a place in the 1820s. Victoria wasthe ()___ queen to live there (from 1837). In the place there ()___ the Queen’sGallery which exhibits ()___ from the royal at collection, ()___ drawings byLeonardo da Vinci. The first floor balcony is the scene of formal appearance bythe Royal Family on important ()____________. Below it in the forecourt, thecolorful ceremony of Changing the Guard takes ()_______ regularly (generallyevery morning from April to early August) .

()_____Her Majesty the Queen is in residence, you can see the Union Jack above thepalace. Traditionally closed to the ()_____, the State Rooms of the palacewere () _____________, to tourists during the summer months in the mid-1990s.The State Rooms of the palace are used for ()_______ heads of state and forholding ceremonies where Her Majesty and other () _________ of the RoyalFamily give official titles, honours and ()_______.