6. Write a letter to your pen friend about your favourite holiday. Why do you like it?

Buckingham palace, the best (0) known royal palace in the world, is (1) situated _ in central london. the palace takes (2) name from the house (3)_which__ was built in 1703. sixty years later it was bought by king george iii for his wife, queen charlotte and became known ( the queen's house. john nash, the royal architect, ( it into a palace in the 1820s. victoria was the ( queen to live there (from 1837). in the palace there (7) _is__ the queen's gallery which exhibits ( from the royal art collection, ( drawings by leonardo da vinci. the first floor balcony is the scene of formal appearances by the royal family on important (10)_events__ below it in the forecourt, the colourful ceremony of changing the guard takes (11) every morning from april to early august). ( her majesty the queen is in residence, you can see the union jack above the palace. traditionally closed to the (13)_public__ , the state rooms of the palace were (14) to tourists during the summer months in the mid-1990s. the state rooms of the palace are used for ( heads of state and for holding ceremonies where her majesty and other ( of the royal family give official titles, honours and (