Inside Buckingham Palace: Never-before-seen footage of the Queen's London home

As Buckingham Palace undergoes renovations, the public are being given a rare glimpse into what it might be like to live and work inside the Queen's official home, as never-before-seen footage is released.

Buckingham Palace has over 400 rooms, but the general public who pay to visit are only granted access to very few of them.

For the rest of us, we must make do with occasional glimpses into the Palace via official royal portraits shot or painted in the rooms – until now.

The Queen’s official home in central London is undergoing some much needed renovations to bring the royal residence up to date with new technologies, improve how it functions day-to-day and make it more accessible for guests.

As a result, the public are being given a rare glimpse behind the scenes at Buckingham Palace, and have been granted unprecedented access to areas previously only known to those who work within the Palace’s private walls.  

Her majesty's royal footmen currently make long and winding journeys through the palace to attend to their duties. So as part of the Palace's schedule of "reservicing", architects have used innovate Point Cloud technologies to map the historical building and help design changes set to be made over the next nine years.

In the video above, the never-before-seen footage from inside Buckingham Palace shows the laborious route currently used by staff to get from the kitchens up to the Palace’s Chinese Drawing Room.

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In particular, the technology is being used to help design new lifts, and the new video released by the Royal Family shows just how badly the renovations are needed to make the Palace more accessible and efficient.

The high-speed tour gives a glimpse into what it might be like to live and work inside the Palace day-to-day, something which even summer visitors to the royal residence never get to see.

Image: royal.uk

The Point Cloud technology also produces 3D computer images, used by the architects in the planning stages of their work, which opens up the royal residence like a doll’s house, revealing the shape and size of many of the Palace’s normally private rooms.

As the Queen has now left London to enjoy the rest of the summer months up in Scotland at Balmoral Castle, renovations to the entire Palace can finally begin.

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