Photo Blog: God Save the Queen(and the taxpayers' money..)

The English Monarchy is part of England's rich and proud heritage. While in London, we visited three of the most spoken of royal homes.

We're going to London to visit the Queen!

First stop: Windsor Castle
The largest inhabited castle in the world, and the Queen's personal favourite. One of three of her private homes.

This building opposite the cathedral, is where apparently special knights lived. Everyday their duty was to go to the cathedral and pray for the King, who was usually too busy shagging his consorts and beheading people to make it to church enough to salvage himself of his sins.

There was a fire in Windsor Castle in 1992, but was not restored till 1997 because the Queen, who has money flowing out of her ears, felt it was not her duty to pay and insisted on the state taking care of it. There was no way the government would have gotten away with an addition 40 million pounds spent on the Queen so they decided to open up the palace to tourists to gather the money to fund the restoration.

A Palace Guard. I felt so sorry for the young lad, looking quite the fool while everybody stood next to him, taking photos while he looked clearly uncomfortable. I decided to spare him and gave him one less photo opportunity with yours truly.

Next off: Buckingham Palace

Everyone knows this one. It's actually not that impressive! But with the number of people taking photos outside the palace and hanging around waiting for signs of royal life, I felt distinctly sorry for Harry and William, having to deal with this every day of their life.

I ONLY came here to see the furry hats and red uniforms, but apparently they don't wear that in spring.

These lovely creatures stole quite a bit of attention from the palace.

Finally: Hampton Court Palace
Former residence my favourite King, Henry the 8th. Now, this is a castle. Simply marvelous!