visitorsRead about Buckingham Palace, one of the most popular attractions for tourists in London. For questions 1-17 fill in the gaps with one suitable word.

Buckingham Palace, the best (0) known royal palace in the world, is (1) ____ in Central London. The palace takes (2) ____ name from the house(3) _____ was built in 1703. Sixty years later it was bought by King George III for his wife, Queen Charlotte and became known (4) _____ the queen’s
house. John Nash, the royal architect, (5) _____ it into a palace in the 1820s. Victoria was the (6) ____ queen to live there (from 1837). In the palace there(7) _____the Queen’s Gallery which exhibits (8) ___ from the royal art collection, (9) ___drawings by Leonardo da Vinci. The first floor balcony is the scene of formal appearances by the Royal Family on important (10)______ . Below it in the forecourt, the colourful ceremony of Changing the Guard takes (11) ____ regularly (generally every morning from April to early August). (12)_____Her Majesty the Queen is in residence, you can see the Union Jack above the palace. Traditionally closed to the (13) ____, the State Rooms of the palace were (14)______to tourists during the summer months in the mid-1990s. The State Rooms of the palace are used for (15) ____ heads of state and for holding ceremonies where Her Majesty and other (16)____ of the Royal Family give official titles, honours and (17)____ .

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