Daniela Relf
speaker
174 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Jun
Daniela Relf’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Maybe a little bit, but ultimately,
It was a very personal decision from the King and Queen.
They wanted to stay at Clarence House.
It's where they've lived for more than 20 years.
You've got to remember as well, there are two people in their late 70s.
The King is living with cancer and the bottom line is they didn't want to live above the shop and they didn't want the upheaval of moving themselves and their staff to Buckingham Palace.
So they have chosen to stay living at Clarence House.
But Buckingham Palace has still been described by the King's team as monarchy HQ.
It's an operational base.
of the royal family.
We're still going to see garden parties, state banquets, big events.
And there is this chance now that without a monarch in residence on a long-term basis, that the palace could be opened up to the public more often for longer periods of the year, therefore generating more income.
Yeah, exactly.
It was not a gold wallpaper and a bit of a zhuzh up for the King's private apartments that would have been there.
It was a much bigger project, almost £370 million of public money spent on the 10-year refurbishment, the resurfacing, as the palace call it, of Buckingham Palace.
That is now nearly complete.
And, you know, there are some that might say, well, if the King's not even going to be living there, wasn't that a whole waste of money?
But it was a really big project.
We're talking rewiring, changing the plumbing, there were asbestos issues and
The King's team say, look, this is a 300-year-old building.
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