BEHIND THE PALACE GATES
INSIDE ST. GEORGE'S PALACE Today, the Hanover World Report is pleased to offer our readers a special and rare glimpse inside what may be the best known yet most mysterious place in all of Great Hanover, St. George’s Palace. Home to Hanoverian monarchs since the days of King Alexander, St. George’s Palace, named in honour of St. Edward the Confessor, is instantly recognizable, both to Bergen residents and tourists the world over, yet few have any idea what life is really like behind those gilded gates and granite walls. Erected by royal architect Sir Lutyens Wren Pugin somewhere between the years 1767 and 1978, St. George’s has for decades served as the backdrop for glittering court ceremonies, outrageous scandals, and predictable palace intrigues. Her fabled history aside, however, St. George’s has simply been the place which our head of state calls “home”. Here, our monarch lives, works, eats, and sleeps, eats again, and in this place of fame and grandeur, the