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Marble Arch honours those who fought and The original palace was built in the 11th died during the French Revolutionary and century after the Norman invasion of Napoleonic Wars, Beneath its vault lies the England by William the Conqueror. Since Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World the time of Henry I, it has been used by the War I. reigning monarch and is the longest-occupied
palace in Europe.
Buckingham Palace is currently the official Marble Arch became the rallying point of London residence of the Duke and Duchess of English troops parading after successful mili- Cambridge, Princess Eugenie and her husband tary campaigns and for the annual military Jack Brooksbank, the Duke and Duchess of Jubilee Parade. Both charles De Gaulle Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, (in 1944) and Hitler (1940) observed this and Prince and Princess Michael of Kent. costume.
Inspired by the Arch of Titus in Rome, Italy, Marble Arch has an overall height of 164 ft, width of 148 ft and depth of 72 ft, while its large vault is 95.8 ft high and 48.0 ft wide.
Buckingham Palace occupies 13 acres (5.3 ha), and combines the features of a fortification, a palace, and a small town. The present-day palace was created during a sequence of phased building projects, culminating in the recon- struction work after a fire in 1992.
Buckingham Palace is a royal residence at It was commissioned in 1806 after the victo- Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. ry at Austerlitz by Emperor Napoleon at the It is notable for its long association with the peak of his fortunes. In 1810, when Napoleon English and later British royal family and entered London from the west with his bride for its architecture. Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria, he
had a wooden mock-up of the completed arch constructed
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