Queen Elizabeth Makes Monumental Moving Decision After 70-Year Reign

While English royalty and Buckingham Palace have basically become synonymous, 👑Queen Elizabeth has made a break with tradition to move in to one of her other well-known residences.

While the “downgrade” from palace to castle isn’t much of a downgrade at all, there were several practical reasons the Queen decided this was the next step for her.

The 95-year-old has spent much of her 70 years on the throne at Buckingham Palace, but Windsor Castle has been her weekend home and the place she spends certain holidays.

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The Times of London reports that the palace has been experiencing a lot of “reservicing,” according to the New York Post.

The website British Heritage states that the renovations are expected to cost around $500 million and should be completed by 2027. The painstaking process of moving artifacts to allow for the work began years ago.

“Moving historic works of art in a historic interior is always complex, but this is really on a very grand scale,” senior curator of decorative arts at the Royal Collection Trust Caroline de Guitaut said.