Like all the whales in British waters, the queen also technically co-owns all unmarked mute swans in certain stretches of the Thames and its surrounding tributaries," according to the official website of the Royal Family. 1. Or, perhaps, everyone else had enough sense not to visit a supposedly haunted palace on Friday the 13th. adjoining, ancestral, ancient, apostolic, archiepiscopal, assyrian, baroque, beautiful, big, bright, built, burning, celebrated, celestial, central, century, chief, chinese, costly, crystal, dark, deserted, dilapidated, ducal, egyptian, elegant, empty, enchanted, enormous, entire, episcopal, european, extensive, fair, fairy, famous, farnese, favorite, favourite, fine, finest, first, floating, florentine, former, fortified, french, gilded, glass, gloomy, glorious, golden, gorgeous, gothic, grand, grandest, great, handsome, heavenly, high, holy, huge, immense, imperial, inner, italian, kingly, large, largest, lateran, lavish, little, lofty, lonely, lordly, luxurious, magic, magnificent, main, marble, marvellous, massive, medieval, mighty, miniature, modern, moorish, municipal, national, neighbouring, new, noble, old, opulent, original, other, own, papal, perfect, persian, pink, pleasant, pontifical, present, presidential, princely, principal, private, proud, public, pullman, quirinal, real, regal, rich, roman, royal, ruined, sacred, same, second, single, small, spacious, splendid, stately, style, subterranean, suburban, sumptuous, superb, tall, temporary, underground, unfinished, vast, vatican, venetian, veritable, very, viceregal, walled, white, whole, wonderful, wooden. The gun carriage of The Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery was positioned in the Buckingham Palace Quadrangle, where the Major General Commanding the Household Division, Major General Chris Ghika and over 50 of his staff took up their positions.
Barbara Klein & Krista Schweiggl