June 23rd - After classes, we went to Kensington Palace, the home of Queen Victoria and her love, Prince Albert and more recently, the late Princess Diana. This palace is rather modest in size and interior rooms. The gardens surrounding were really enjoyable to walk through. And as we traversed the park, we found love - in solid gold and marble. There, erected before us was the Prince Albert memorial, the largest monument of love ever created, or at least during the Victorian period. Prince Albert, her Saxe-Coburg and Gotha soulmate (in death and life), or as Fariha calls him, her "Sacks Go-go," died at a very early age, plunging the Queen into deep mourning thereafter. Seriously guys, check it out.
We walked literally ten hours in Hyde Park. And pretended we were from the Regency era.
Buckingham was anti-climatic. Maybe it was because we were already tired from all that walking and so impressed by the monument of love that this fell short. The best Fariha could muster was "the Queen's digs are pretty nice."
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