Ashley Hicks
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Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret?
Hello, I'm Ashley Hicks, and I'm a designer of interiors and objects for them, and also a photographer of historic interiors, and I've written a book about Buckingham Palace's interiors.
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Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret?
We would go and watch them ride back into the palace and We'd go and give the horses sugar lumps and carrots. And then we would go up and have a Coca-Cola because we were children and some sandwiches with our mothers saying, now make sure you eat enough because that's all the lunch you're getting. How were the sandwiches at the palace? They were pretty good, actually.
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Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret?
There were Marmite ones, which, you know, obviously are very good if you like Marmite. And if you don't even know what Marmite is, then you need to study a bit of English culture.
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Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret?
I mean, the interesting thing about the White House, in a way, is the amount that you see it in movies and on TV. Yes. I mean, that Oval Office. I mean, I feel like I've lived there, don't you? I do. I mean, literally, I know how to get to the secretary's room. I know how to get to the West Wing. Whereas Buckingham Palace, generally speaking, people got no idea.
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Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret?
There's very little of it that gets seen. I mean, you can buy a ticket and go around and look at it, but then you don't see very many rooms.
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Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret?
Well, it was great fun, you know. It was slightly – every time I wanted to move an object or move a chair or something, there were shrieks of horror, you know. Somebody would have to come scuttling along with a pair of white gloves for me to put on. Then I was told, oh, don't lift a chair by its arms, you know, all this kind of thing.
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Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret?
Oh, I don't know. Are there 30, something like that? Are there really 775? Maybe there are. That's what I've been told. Maybe there are.
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Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret?
Yeah. Is that the pool house? I think that is the pool. Have you been inside? No, no, I haven't. And are you curious about it? Not especially. So far as I know, it's a fairly ordinary swimming pool. But maybe it's magnificent. Who knows? Maybe it's worthy of your president-elect. Maybe it's entirely gold. I don't know. Who knows?