The Royal Brighton Pavilion

So today, after three years of living in Brighton, me and my flatmates decide to visit the Royal Pavilion of Brighton. It was built as a summer house for Prince George/George IV.
George liked to entertain and had this house/palace mainly to entertain guests over the summer. The exterior is built in Indian/Islamic style while the inside is designed in a European take on Chinese architecture. The most impressive room is probably the Banquet hall which has 5 chandeliers, the middle one is held up by a silver dragon and weighs over 1 ton (the other 4 were only held up by golden phoenixes). The middle chandelier which has many other dragons sticking out of it was light by oil lamps (coming out of the dragons) so it would look like the dragons were breathing fire.


Quite impressive.

However, Vicky, more commonly referred to as Queen Victoria didn't like the palace, and stated that "The Pavilion is a strange, odd, Chinese looking place, both outside and inside. Most of the rooms are low, and I can only see a morsel of the sea, from one of my sitting room windows" And went on to say that Brighton was very vain and full of dandies.

How very Victorian of her.

So she sold it to the City of Brighton, however before she sold it she stripped the palace of all the luxuries items in it.

Her mother obviously never taught her good manners.

Anyway, the palace is worth a visit if you are in Brighton. There is a lovely terrace on the top that has Afternoon teas and other things of goodness.