According to a travel magazine, Buckingham Palace covered 828,000 square feet and had 775 rooms: 52 royal bedrooms, 188 staff bedrooms, 92 offices, and 78 bathrooms. It employed over a thousand people in jobs ranging from butlers to footmen.
Besides permanent staff, there were also many "temporary workers." Severus had once taken part in a mission to guard the "Queen's Jewels." As a "special staff member," he had worked at Buckingham Palace for a time and had even stayed in a "mission bedroom."
Naturally, all those people did not dine at Buckingham Palace. After leaving the Queen's Gallery and passing through the Royal Mews, there was a restaurant near Victoria Palace Theatre that served English breakfasts and afternoon tea. It had a history of more than a hundred years. Not far from it was London Victoria Station, which had opened more than a decade after King's Cross Station. Unlike King's Cross, which served destinations outside the city, Victoria Station was an important station within the city, with an Underground station nearby. Permanent and temporary staff arriving from all over to work at Buckingham Palace would stop there for tea after getting off the Underground or Circle Line trains. Or they would have something to eat, read The Times they had just bought at the station, then walk to the back entrance of Buckingham Palace.
The changing of the guard took place at the front entrance, drawing large crowds of tourists. Though the back entrance had an open space, it was not suitable for holding state celebrations.
It was a very, very large garden. Legend had it that the Queen had once chased her dog to the back entrance, where she saw The London Library's mobile lending station, though she did not know what it was for. A kitchen assistant happened