royal residence
Where kings live
A royal residence is an official home of a monarch or royal family.
The term covers palaces, castles, and estates where royalty lives or conducts state business: Buckingham Palace is the best-known royal residence in Britain.
Some royal residences function primarily as ceremonial spaces while others serve as private retreats.
- changing of the guardCeremonial sentry replacement ritual
- VersaillesFrench royal palace complex
- Forbidden CityMing dynasty royal complex
- crown jewelsSovereign's ceremonial treasures
- throne roomSovereign's formal audience hall
grand staircase · banquet hall · Alhambra · great hall · manor · Kremlin · chateau · turrets · estate · coronation · gilded · guards · crown · scepter · coat of arms · chambers · dynasty · nobility
- Official ResidencesWhite House, Kremlin, 10 Downing Street, state house
- PalacesVersailles, Forbidden City, Hampton Court, Alhambra, Neuschwanstein
- royal heritagebirthright, bloodline, crown jewels, heir apparent, hereditary titles
- Royal thingsthrone, crown jewels, coronation regalia, state coach
- crown propertycrown land, estate, crown jewels, throne, Balmoral
- Hampton CourtHenry VIII, maze, gardens, Anne Boleyn, gatehouse
social class of inhabitants
royal residencehovel
Wretched small dwelling
servant's quarters · slum dwelling · poorhouse · tenement · workhouse