Buckingham Palace

=== Principal rooms ===
The principal rooms are contained on the first-floor ''[[piano nobile]]'' behind the west-facing garden façade at the rear of the palace. The centre of this ornate suite of state rooms is the Music Room, its large bow the dominant feature of the façade. Flanking the Music Room are the Blue and the White Drawing Rooms. At the centre of the suite, serving as a corridor to link the state rooms, is the Picture Gallery, which is top-lit and {{convert|55|yd}} long.<ref name="Harris, p.41">Harris, p. 41.</ref> The Gallery is hung with numerous works including some by [[Rembrandt]], [[van Dyck]], [[Rubens]] and [[Vermeer]];<ref>Harris, pp. 78–79 and Healey, pp. 387–388.</ref> other rooms leading from the Picture Gallery are the [[Throne Room]] and the Green Drawing Room. The Green Drawing Room serves as a huge anteroom to the Throne Room, and is part of the ceremonial route to the throne from the Guard Room at the top of the Grand Staircase.<ref name="Harris, p.41"/> The Guard Room contains white marble statues of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, in Roman costume, set in a [[Tribune (architecture)|tribune]] lined with tapestries. These very formal rooms are used only for ceremonial and official entertaining but are open to the public every summer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Visit the State Rooms, Buckingham Palace |url=https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/the-state-rooms-buckingham-palace |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306164557/https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/the-state-rooms-buckingham-palace |archive-date=6 March 2016 |access-date=7 February 2016 |publisher=Royal Collection Trust}}</ref>