Buckingham Palace was the London home and primary residence of the British monarchy.
Location[]
The palace was located at the end of the Mall. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People)
History[]
18th century[]
In 1762, King George III kept his army of Peking Homunculi under Buckingham Palace until they were destroyed by Eliza, Lord Sandwich and Sieur d'Eon. (AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat)
19th century[]
In 1889, Li H'sen Chang was scheduled to perform for Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace but he was killed one month earlier. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
In the 1890s, Silas Ruckford attempted to blow up Buckingham Palace, but was stopped by the Paternoster Gang. (COMIC: The Crystal Throne)
20th century[]
On 8 May 1945, during the celebration of VE Day, Winston Churchill appeared alongside the Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, where he addressed the nation. (AUDIO: Churchill Victorious) The Ninth Doctor visited Churchill in his room at the palace later that day. (PROSE: The Lost Diaries of Winston Spencer Churchill)
On 1953, on the day of Elizabeth II's coronation, the Second Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon posed as royal guards outside of the palace, as the Queen began her procession, to evade an unidentified red alien. The alien, also dressed as a guard, caught the pair, before it was subdued by Eva De Ville, allowing them to escape. Later, the Thirteenth Doctor was unintentionally photographed on the palace balcony alongside the Royal Family. (COMIC: Where's the Doctor?)
Adam Smith told Norton Folgate and Lizbeth Hayhoe that he was having to visit Room 13 as Reginald Rigsby was at the palace. (AUDIO: Madam, I'm)
The Fourth Doctor was invited to have dinner at the Palace, but he instead ran off in his TARDIS. (TV: Robot)
21st century[]
In 2001, Jason stormed Buckingham Palace, but left after learning that the Queen was not there. He later returned, drove out the staff and set up a force field to keep them out. He relinquished the palace after the Seventh Doctor convinced him to do so. (PROSE: Head Games)
In the 2000s,[nb 1] during the reign of Elizabeth II, most residents of London left the city out of fear over an alien invasion. Elizabeth II herself chose to stay behind. A starship fashioned to look like the Titanic was about to crash into the palace until the Tenth Doctor, at the controls, managed to avert the disaster. (TV: Voyage of the Damned)
The TARDIS was parked in the grounds of Buckingham Palace prior to the Tenth Doctor being transported to San Helios in approximately the 2000s.[nb 2] According to the Doctor, the Queen "doesn't mind". (TV: Planet of the Dead)
The palace was destroyed in the 22nd century Dalek invasion. (PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks)
Undated events[]
Tanya Adeola had an aunt who met the Queen at a Buckingham Palace garden party. (PROSE: The Stone House)
The Thirteenth Doctor was photographed "running away from a giant frog in front of Buckingham Palace". (PROSE: Rose)
Alternate timelines[]
In an alternate timeline in which Nazi Germany won World War II, King Edward VIII, having restored to the throne, signed the treaty establishing his country as a protectorate of the Reich in front of Buckingham Palace. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)
In a version of 2586 corrupted by the Sodality, Buckingham Palace became their headquarters. (PROSE: Child of Time)
Parallel worlds[]
In Germania V, Marcus Americanius Scriptor used Buckingham Palace as his headquarters and centre of operations. He commissioned the architect Gropius to design a new palace there in Roman style, carefully incorporating the existing building into the design. (PROSE: Warlords of Utopia)
Behind the scenes[]
- According to the book The Writer's Tale, Russell T Davies' original draft of Voyage of the Damned had the Titanic demolish part of the palace, leading the Queen to curse the Doctor (continuing the recurring recent theme of the Doctor making enemies with British royalty), but this was dropped as too negative for a holiday special. His later script, Turn Left, did allow the ship to destroy the palace and most of southern England, but in an alternate timeline.
Footnotes[]
- ↑ Although Voyage of the Damned is supposedly set the Christmas after the 2007 setting of The Runaway Bride, the Doctor Who series which aired immediately before and after Voyage give contradicting dates for when their present day is set. PROSE: The Paradox Moon places Martha Jones' present day in series 3 in June 2007. AUDIO: Recruits dates it to March 2008. A newspaper clipping in PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters places Smith and Jones on a Sunday 4 June, which in the real world does not fall on a Sunday in either 2007 or 2008. Donna Noble's present day in series 4 is set in 2008 according to TV: The Fires of Pompeii, TV: The Waters of Mars, and AUDIO: SOS (and is heavily implied by TV: The Star Beast and TV: The Giggle), or in approximately April to June 2009, according to PROSE: Beautiful Chaos.
- ↑ Both Planet of the Dead and The End of Time are referred to in dialogue as taking place after the end of Journey's End, which is set in either 2008, according to TV: The Fires of Pompeii, TV: The Waters of Mars, and AUDIO: SOS (and heavily implied by TV: The Star Beast and TV: The Giggle), or six weeks after the middle of May 2009, circa June, according to PROSE: Beautiful Chaos. However, the year of Planet of the Dead is unspecified, as is whether or not it is intended to be the Easter immediately after Journey's End.
