Prince Harry reveals secret Buckingham Palace room he was banned from | Royal | News
Buckingham Palace has a massive 775 rooms, including 52 luxurious royal and guest bedrooms, 19 grand State rooms, a staggering 188 staff bedrooms, 92 offices and more bathrooms than you could ever need, 78 of which are residences.
Royalists flock from around the world to get a look inside the palace when it opens to the public in the summer, so you can expect the Royal Family to love exploring rooms no one else can access. But Prince Harry revealed he never entered one of the rooms until he was 33.
Just before the wedding, the late Queen invited Prince Harry to her dressing room to try on Meghan Markle’s tiaras for the special day.
She wrote: “Shortly before the wedding, however, Granny reached out to us. She offered us access to her collection of tiaras. She even invited us to Buckingham Palace to try them on. Come along, I remember her saying.”
He described it as an “extraordinary morning” and added: “We went into the private dressing room right next to the grandmother’s bedroom, a place I had never been in before.
“There was also a jewelery expert with Granny and a distinguished historian who knew the origins of every stone in the royal collection. Also there was Granny’s dresser and confidant, Angela.
“Five crowns were arranged on a table, and Grandma told Meg to try each one on in front of a full-length mirror. So I stood back and watched.”
Contrary to what we might expect, the Duke said that he actually spent very little time at court in his youth.
Speaking to a group of young professionals from the Caribbean who, as rising stars in the industry, stayed at the Palace to train with the house staff in 2018, he joked that they were much more accustomed to the palace than he was.
“You have spent more time in Buckingham Palace than I have ever spent, and I can assure you that you have only been here for two weeks,” he said.
Prince Harry lived at Kensington Palace throughout his childhood and lived at Clarence House for a time until 2012, but during holidays he was more likely to spend time with his grandparents at Balmoral, Sandringham and Windsor.
