'Very Modest' Queen Utilizes Just Six Of Buckingham Palace’s 775 Rooms

Oct 29, 2019 by apost team

The Queen of the United Kingdom is used to opulence and luxury and can have as much space as she desires. However in the grand setting of her home, Buckingham Palace, she only uses six out of the possible 775 rooms.

Her royal dresser Angela Kelly released a book entitled “The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe” that brought the public into the private life of the Queen. In it, she says that the Queen is “very modest” as per The Sun.

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She only occupies a few essential rooms like her bedroom, her private sitting room, bathroom, and dressing room. She also uses the Audience Room and the Empire Room as meeting or waiting rooms for dignitaries including the Prime Minister.

Kelly describes the rooms and says in The Sun that "These rooms aren’t vast and there is space for very little furniture; just the odd wardrobe or chest of drawers.”

As for her more private rooms, Kelly says, “The only gentlemen that I have ever known to enter these rooms are The Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the royal family; because the Queen’s privacy is the absolute priority among her personal staff.”

The palace was built in 1703 and of its 775 rooms, 188 are staff bedrooms, 92 are offices, 78 are bathrooms, 52 are royal and guest bedrooms, and there are 19 staterooms. The Queen also spends her summer months at Balmoral in Scotland, and during that time the grand Buckingham Palace rooms are open to the public. 

Have you ever visited Buckingham Palace? Tell us about what you saw, and what would you do with the 775 rooms.