[00:06.160]Buckingham Palace is the monarch's principal state residence.
[00:12.682]And at its heart is a proclamation of royal authority.
[00:24.287]If you had to pick just one room
[00:26.599]which encapsulates what Buckingham Palace represents,
[00:29.559]it's this one.
[00:30.973]The Throne Room.
[00:32.703]And you're in no doubt where the seat of power lies.
[00:35.416]The two chairs on a raised dais,
[00:37.362]one for Queen Elizabeth the Second,
[00:38.978]one for her consort, Prince Philip.
[00:41.284]And you might pick
[00:42.731]that the Queen has sat on that seat many times during her reign
[00:46.136]and received dozens of heads of state here.
[00:49.549]But you'd be wrong.
[00:50.513]This room is purely symbolic,
[00:52.844]and she's only sat on that chair the once,
[00:54.289]at her coronation in 1953.