England: London

  • Buckingham Palace
  • Serpentine Lake Birds
  • Albert Memorial
  • Hyde Park
  • Royal Albert Hall

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Buckingham Palace: Our neighbor Patsy invited us to go with her on the Buckingham Palace tour.  Patsy works at Windsor Castle and she has invited us to other events such as Garter Day at Windsor Castle and the Frogmore Mausoleum tour.

The colorful front of Buckingham Palace as seen from the road, is actually the back of the palace.  The last photo shows the actual front.  We were able to see the front after our tour.  There were no photos allowed inside.
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Serpentine Lake Birds: The like is directly across from Buckingham Palace.
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Albert Memorial: The Albert Memorial - commissioned by Queen Victoria to commemorate her late consort
Queen Victoria married Albert, Prince of Saxe Coburg, in 1840; twenty-two years later Albert died of typhoid, leaving the Queen an "utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two." Soon after the Prince's death, Disraeli declared: "This German Prince has governed England for twenty-one years with a wisdom and energy such as none of our kings have ever shown."

The composition has a large statue of Albert seated in a vast Gothic shrine, and includes a frieze with 169 carved figures, angels and virtues higher up, and separate groups representing the Continents, Industrial Arts and Sciences. 
The pillars supporting the canopy are of red granite from the Ross of Mull and from a gray granite from Castle Wellan Quarries, Northern Ireland. These latter pillars, of which there are four, are from single stones each weighing about 17 tons. Each pillar took eight men about 20 weeks to finish and polish, and the Albert Memorial was noted at the time of its completion as being one of the most costly works in granite of the period.

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London - Royal Albert Hall: The Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences is an arts venue dedicated to Queen Victoria's husband and consort, Prince Albert. It is situated in London, England in the royal borough of Westminster, within the area also known as Albertopolis. It forms the practical part of a national memorial to the Prince Consort - the decorative part is the Albert Memorial directly to the north in Kensington Gardens.

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Hyde Park

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