This will take about half a day. It's not far, you can take the subway there. This is huge as well. I don't know too much history about this place as the others. We were here on a Thursday and the Queen was planning a state visit on Tuesday so we got to see the staff getting ready. The kitchen tour is brand new. It was only opened for two weeks when we got there so of course I had to take a tour of this, even though it cost extra money. The Queen just recently decided that it should be opened to the public. They are doing a trial run of it though, so they are asking for feedback to see if it was worth being part of the tour. It was cool for me to see, but I don't think it was worth the money. It is the oldest working kitchen in the world. It was huge, the walls were original and the spits and onen oven, but everything else had been modernized. It was nice thought to see where the actual people work. This is one of the Queen's favorite palaces, she splits her time between here and Buckingham palace. When the fire of 1992 came, they discovered this underground room they showed us, which is where one of the Princesses, I think Princess Beatrice, had their 21st birthday, it was beautiful. If it wasn't for the fire, they would have never discovered it. We couldn't go near the Queen's state apartments obviously, but they had a guard in front of them, so you knew where they were located. The best part of this tour was seeing St. George's chapel. King Henry VIII is buried here next to his third wife Jane Seymour (he considered her his true wife because she's the only one who gave him a son). The Queen Mother is buried here as well as many other monarchs.
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