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The Queen will never live again at Buckingham Palace, making Windsor Castle her permanent home and main official residence, the Sunday Times has reported today.It is understood the monarch, 95, who has lived at the palace for most of her 70-year reign, has come to prefer life at Windsor Castle, where she has spent much of the past two years since leaving London to isolate with Prince Philip at the start of the pandemic.Windsor was previously only the Queen’s weekend home and her residence for Easter and Royal Ascot week in June.It means Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall are set to be the next members of the Royal Family to take up residence at Buckingham Palace as King and Queen Consort.Charles, 73, is known to prefer his London home, Clarence House, but has conceded the palace should remain “monarchy HQ” once he ascends the throne.Buckingham Palace, which has been the official London residence of British sovereigns since 1837, is midway through a 10-year, £369million reservicing programme.The Queen originally planned only to temporarily move out of her private apartments, and relocate to another part of the palace while her quarters were renovated.But now she will only return to London for occasional engagements, and she reportedly has not spent a night at the palace since March 2020.But what is it like inside Buckingham Palace?Despite its 775-room grandeur, while the Queen was in residence at Buckingham Palace, she often preferred a less grand way of life.In 2003, Ryan Parry, an undercover tabloid reporter posing as a footman who worked at the palace for two months, revealed how her breakfast table was simply laid with cereal in Tupperware.The palace has a whopping 775 rooms and includes a gallery,

Queen Elizabeth II after 70 years on the throne, memories of her are being shared.Never a woman to share much of her personal life, there are few accounts of what she got up to behind closed doors.One such account came from Daily Mirror journalist Ryan Parry A media storm was created by Daily Mirror journalist who secretly landed a job as a footman at Buckingham palace to help with US president George Bush's state visit to the UK in 2003.READ NEXT: THE STAR SAYS: We're not a royalist newspaper... but the Queen made us all so very proudIt turned out that the Queen, a big breakfast cereal lover, stored all of her cereals, including cornflakes, porridge oats, and Weetabix in humble Tupperware and drank Earl Grey tea.She also had a preference for toast with marmalade which she sometimes fed to her beloved corgis.However the sneaky journo also revealed the level of formality that often accompanied her.Parry revealed how servants had intricate plans of how to serve breakfast, detailing everything down to exactly where to place the honey, marmalade and silver spoons.On the breakfast table the Duke of Edinburgh had his own small radio where he could contact servants at a moment's notice.The Queen, a prolific newspaper reader, had a pile of national newspapers with the Racing Post always on the top, such was her love of horse racing.Footmen were given plans of the tea trays, showing where each and every piece of crockery and cutlery was to be placed.At weekends, the Queen was attended to by a smaller group of staff, consisting of two footmen, two kitchen porters, two chefs, two silver pantry under-butlers, a page and a coffee-room maid.Even delivering coffee to the Queen was a tightly coordinated affair, with the maid tasked to