I feel compelled to describe Buckingham Palace, but before I do so, let’s be honest: There are more awe-inspiring Palaces. Not to jump ahead, but when you look at the Grandeur of the Louvre or the ruins of the Villa Adriana, you can’t help but look at Buckingham Palace and think “This is it?”
Granted Americans have no room to talk.
The White House: tiny, cramped, and expensive.
It leads one to think: What is the measure of a Ruler’s residence?
This may be bad paraphrasing but I recall that Frederick Jackson Turner once hypothesized that the Untied States would never truly have great Federal Buildings because the legacy of free people cannot be found in the impressiveness of their architecture, but rather in the way that everyday people have been treated and valued. This means basically: “Sorry Guys. No forced-labor Pyramids for you. You just get a fair wage and natural beauty.” To which all tyrants say “lame.”
So no, Buckingham Palace is not that impressive. But the Palace of Versailles is and we all know how that turned out.
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