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Where To Stream Buckingham Palace with Alexander Armstrong Season 1 Episode 1

Episode 1

The opening episode transports us back to the late 18th Century, when the building first came into royal hands. Alexander Armstrong discovers that, originally, it wasn't a palace at all – but a private country house built by a man called the Duke of Buckingham. With red brick walls and a mere 40 rooms, "Buckingham House", as it was known, looked nothing like the imposing palace we see today. But in 1761 the modest country pile caught the eye of King George III and his new bride, Queen...