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Like most other employers, The Queen finds it difficult to find good employees. At the moment she is advertising for new footmen....

Last year Buckingham Palace announced that it was struggling to find enough money to fund critical maintenance. It appears the government may be at last providing additional help in the form of one million pounds over the next three years....

After an outcry from Londoners, plans to build two new skyscrapers close to Buckingham Palace have been scraped, or at least modified....

A new exhibition, When Versailles Was Furnished in Silver, which runs until 9 March, gives a visitor a idea of the opulence of Versailles in the reign of Louis XIV. Made up of silver furniture from the great palaces of Europe including Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace...

Buckingham Palace is appealing to the Government to cover a massive shortfall in the maintenance funds available to them. Millions of pounds are needed to stop the Royal Palaces from crumbling....

For the first time women soldiers are guarding Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle....

The Windsor Hydro Project which is intended to provide 1/3 of the power to Windsor Castle, at the cost of around £1m has been delayed again....

As part of the celebrations of the Queen's Diamond Wedding Jubilee (60 years), the Royal Collection are displaying a number of wedding related memorabilia at Windsor Castle from April....

Defence bosses are understood to be considering reducing the 2000 troops that guard the Queen at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace down to 1300....

The Queen has allowed the Telegraph newspaper a rare glimpse inside the wine cellars of the Palace....