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Chapter 280 Buckingham Palace

Three days after Manchester United won the championship, Manchester United welcomed their last opponent in the league on the road.

Because he has won the championship, Manchester United played very easily in this game. Ferguson basically did not send any main players. This is to keep his strength in the FA Cup final a week later and to avoid injury to the main players. After all, facing Southampton, who is fighting for survival, it is difficult to guarantee that the players will not be injured in the game.

Sure enough, in this game, Southampton tried his best to stay in the Premier League, and the scene was very hot. However, Manchester United is too strong, even if most of them are substitutes, Southampton could not defeat it with his blood.

In the end, Manchester United scored one goal each, defeating Southampton with a score of 2:1 away, which brought the season to a perfect end, and also kicked the opponent into the abyss of relegation.

Although Manchester United is not as invincible as last season, their points in the standings still reach 99 points, which is a terrible score. Moreover, their offensive firepower is also very fierce. They have scored 113 goals in 38 games, and averaged more than three goals per game, making the best in Europe.

Jiang Feng did not appear on the stadium in this game. While the game was going on, he was visiting Buckingham Palace accompanied by Beertrace.

Although he often traveled between Britain and China in the past two years, and was also good friends with several princes and princesses of the royal family, Jiang Feng had never come to Buckingham Palace to play. After all, Jiang Feng's identity is relatively complicated, and it is also a more sensitive behavior to come to a place like Buckingham Palace.

This time, he was invited by the British government to come and have a tour guide. Beertrace volunteered to be Jiang Feng's tour guide.

The famous Buckingham Palace is a four-story cube-gray building with a solemn front door hanging with royal badges. It is the center of the power of the Emperor. There are high fences around it. There are more than 600 halls and rooms in the palace, including ceremony halls, concert halls, banquet halls, galleries, etc., as well as the vast imperial garden, with flowers and beautiful flowers.

There are many statues in the square in front of the palace, as well as the Queen Victoria Memorial Hall. The most eye-catching one is the Golden Statue of the Goddess of Victory. She stood on the high marble platform, shining golden light, as if falling from the sky. The golden angel on the Queen Victoria statue represents the royal family's hope to create the glory of the Victorian era again.

Since Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, Buckingham Palace has officially become the royal palace and has been the residence of the British royal family since then. It is also the queen's office and residence. It is said that in summer, some of the houses in the palace are also available for tourists to visit. As a result, thousands of tourists from all over the world flocked.

Beertrace was naturally very familiar with Buckingham Palace. She happily took Jiang Feng to visit all parts of Buckingham Palace.

Those who visited were impressed by the simplicity of the palace. The life of the queen and her husband was not too luxurious. At least they were in their daily lives. The furniture was not covered with gold and did not carry the marks of famous mahogany furniture vendors. They were all very practical furniture.

The only thing that makes people see that the queen has strong financial resources is the oil paintings hanging on the walls of her room. The brushstrokes of those oil paintings are so profound that they are quite amazing. These paintings not only have the signatures of European painting masters, but are often hanged in parallel from famous paintings collected by the royal family.

From the outside, the golden statue of Victory is on the front, and behind it is the light gray Buckingham Palace. The goddess of Victory is located at the top of the tall marble sculpture, like an angel, and opens her arms to welcome the victory. There is no cloud in the blue sky, which is suitable for the background of the golden goddess.

Below the statues are sculptures of figures, surrounded by Goddess of Goddess. The statues include white marble sculptures and bronze castings.

The palace lanterns on the square are very artistic, with both the historical heaviness of the palace lanterns and the artistic style of the casting craftsmanship.

After the two of them had a while of fun, Beertrace said that they would invite Jiang Feng to watch the Royal Guard's change of guard ceremony.

Jiang Feng is not very clear about these things. After all, to the outside world, Buckingham Palace has always been a relatively mysterious one.

The two sat on the grass in front of Buckingham Palace, waiting for the Royal Guard's shifting ceremony while enjoying the touch of the May sun, which seemed very comfortable.

When Jiang Feng and Beertris came out of the palace, the change of guard ceremony had not begun, and Jiang Feng was not idle either. He looked around. There was a thoroughfare just in front of the goddess of victory sculpture, with many tall pillars, and various sculptures on it, which made people stop and think.

Not long after, the Wong Kar Guard's shift ceremony began, which was also the most eye-catching program for passers-by and tourists. Whenever this time comes, the onlookers are like they emerge from the ground, swarming up in groups, but despite this, everyone is still in order.

The Wong Kar Guard at Buckingham Palace holds a shift ceremony every April to September season, from 11:30 to 12:00 every morning, and is held every two days in other months.

Amid the military music and commands, hundreds of guards in gorgeous uniforms made various line-up performances, and the on-duty and laid-off soldiers raised their guns to salute each other, giving the majesty of the royal family.

The big white horse walking in front is agile and handsome.

The guards were in bright red uniforms, and the commander who walked on the first was wearing gold and silver, holding ceremonial guards, which was very majestic. Behind him was the orchestra of the Wong Kar Guard, and they all played with their cheeks.

There are drumbeats behind the First An array. This is a real drum band. They are well-trained and play while walking, and their steps are quite neat.

The onlookers had already started shooting with a long spear. In order to get a better shooting angle, some people rode on their companions' necks.

Although there were not many guards in this squad, the pace was still uniform, but the steps behind were a little messy. The ceremonial guards came to an end. The gradually moving away guards were about to return to their camp, so their steps naturally became lazy.

However, in Jiang Feng's view, from this point of view alone, we can understand that the decline of the British Empire and the rise of other powers, and then dominate the world, is inevitable.

Then, accompanied by the entourage, the two visited Westminster Abbey again.

Speaking of the biggest scandals in the modern British royal family, it is nothing more than the grudges and grudges of Prince Charles and Princess Diana for more than 20 years. After decades of entanglement, it was finally separated, which made people sigh.

The super luxurious, grand and romantic wedding of the golden boy girl back then was held in Westminster Abbey. At that time, royal nobles from all over the European countries came to congratulate each other. The whole country was filled with joy.

At this time, Westminster Abbey was another witness of hundreds of years of history.

The church is located in Parliament Square in Westminster-upon-Thames, London, adjacent to Parliament House and Prime Minister's Residence No. 10 Downing Street. Several well-known buildings are relatively concentrated.

The two towers of the church are towering and towering, and the whole building is both magnificent and quiet and solemn. It is considered to be a masterpiece in British Gothic architecture.

The front of the church has a high spire and huge rose windows. It feels like the church is very tall, and the exterior walls of the church are a bit mottled. I don’t know if it was the erosion of hundreds of years of wind and rain, or the people who built him back then specially created it in order to pursue this sense of vicissitudes.

Westminster Abbey is also a well-known royal church. The ministers and their regulations must be decided by the royal family, and the royal coronation ceremonies are often held in Westminster Abbey.

Kings of all dynasties in Britain, including the current Queen Elizabeth, the grandmother of Beeltris, basically took up the throne here. And they were also buried here a hundred years later. As the royal cemetery, the last one to hold a funeral here was Princess Diana, who died in Paris due to a car accident. It is less than eight years since now.

"I should send some flowers to her tomb," Jiang Feng said to Beertrace.

Someone immediately arranged this matter. Jiang Feng soon received the flowers, and then guided everyone to Diana's tomb and delivered a bouquet of flowers.

"In fact, there is also a horrifying rumor about Westminster Abbey. After the British bourgeoisie's national protection king Cromwell was killed, his head hung on the spire of Westminster Abbey for decades." Beertrace said to Jiang Feng.

Jiang Feng knew something about this legend. After Cromwell's death, King Charles II of England ascended the throne. He dug Cromwell's body from the buried Westminster Temple in London, symbolically hung his body, and tied his head to a pillar to display it to the public.

It is reported that Cromwell's head was traded many times, and it was not until 1960 that it finally found a place to be buried underground in Sussex College in Cambridge. Now there is an extraordinary plaque in the church, which reads: "The noble protector of Britain, Scotland and Northern Ireland, alumni of the school from 1616 to 1617, and the head of Olever Cromwell was buried here on March 25, 1960."

It is reported that the rest of Cromwell's facial models are placed in Warwick Castle and in the London Museum.

At the back of the church, there are some cemeteries of famous politicians, scientists, military strategists, and writers, including Churchill, Newton, Darwin, Chougens, etc., as well as the famous tomb of the unknown warriors during the First World War.

British celebrities are fortunate to enter Westminster Abbey behind them. It is a kind of glory. They are either buried in the church or erected monuments here. There are many tombs and monuments, which are known as the famous exhibition hall of historical relics in the UK. (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy, novels are better and faster! Mobile users please go to m. This site to read.)
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