Here I am, sitting on a Postage Box, in St. James's Street. You can just see the sign above my head. I had to come to St. James's Street as it is home to a few exclusive gentlemen's clubs (such as White's and Brooke's) and, well, my owner, she has read novels that have included the names of these clubs. So, I just had to go here too. These clubs, by the way, have been around for a very long time. We walked down to the bottom of St. James's Street to St. James's Palace, and that was very nice to see as well. 
Aaahhhh...Here I am with some of the Horse Guards riding by. We saw some of these fellows outside Buckingham Palace also. This was taken beside 'Rotten Row', Hyde Park.
Buckingham Palace: official London residence of the Queen (or King, when we have one). Originally known as Buckingham House (due to being the residence of the Duke of Buckingham), it was acquired by King George III in 1762 through a loophole in the lease. It has been added to since then, quite a bit, to create what we now know at 'Buck House', finishing with the east front refaced in 1913 in Portland Stone for a backdrop to the Victoria Monument. This is the face you see me in front of now, as it is the common entrance that we know today, as well as where you can see the famous 'Changing of the Guard' routine. They were kind enough to play some Christmas Carols for us that day, also.
This is what Buckingham House looked like around 1710, when completed for the first Duke of Buckingham and Normandy. Very different, I think, compared to the above photograph. London at the time must have been a fair amount smaller than what it is today, allowing people to build such houses...or did they just make it that they acquired that land...?Bibliography: Wikipedia
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