Buckingham Palace floorplan?

[scully_208]

I'm writing a steampunk Victorian era novel, and someone is murdered in a palace much like Buckingham. Is there a way that I can get a detailed floorplan of the palace? I have searched google for maps but have not been able to find much that is very detailed, I assume for security reasons. If you know of a good map, I would very much like to know

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[ffutures]

Because most of it isn't open to the public, and for security reasons, I doubt you'll find really detailed plans on line. You might do better to look at Windsor Castle, where there's a lot more available,

[m_mas]

Five minutes with google comes up with a plan of one floor on Wikipedia along with some room names and uses? I'd assume the queen's bedroom would be in the private apartments (Room P)

As you said, security means you probably won't find anything more than this, especially of areas not open to the public, but if it's only a palce like Buckingham then it should be easy to build on what's already there.

[bopeepsheep]

It's a building built around a quadrangle, like an overgrown Oxbridge college or (UK) public school, and the parts state guests are invited into are at the back of the quad as you look at the palace - dining rooms, salons, ball rooms, etc. There are small and large state rooms in this part - the small music room my choir sang for the Queen in is still big enough to hold sixty people comfortably, but it's also actually small enough that you could sit there with a couple of people and not feel like you were sitting in a museum. The rooms either side were twice the size, and there was a small art gallery to one side, near the cloakrooms and toilets. (We weren't supposed to go in this bit but I asked and was allowed!) The big grand rooms are ground floor and first floor; above them are smaller offices and rooms for staff; IIRC the front of the building is mostly storage and offices (for security reasons). From the Michael Fagan incident, I seem to remember the papers saying the Queen's room was first floor, but it will be in one of the

[eleanorb]

A useful source for the period is Queen Victoria & the Stalker: The Strange Story of the Boy Jones by Jan Bondeson. It's a really good read even discounting the really useful information about Buckingham Palace and the security at the time (non existant).

[thismaz]

Just a minor point, but the way you phrased your question reminded me that many Americans (I notice you are in Australia, not the US) drop the word Palace, Street, Road, Castle, etc.
In the UK, we don't to do that, so it would always be called Buckingham Palace. It would never called simply Buckingham, because that is a town north west of London.