To celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the world's most popular royal palaces have been revealed in a new study, and it's the UK's Buckingham Palace that takes the top spot.
Researchers at the renovation and building design specialist Roofing Megastore analyzed search data on Google and hashtag data on Instagram for hundreds of royal palaces around the world to discover which palaces people are most curious about, as well as which ones people want to visit and photograph the most.
By combining the annual Google search volume for each palace over the past year, with the total number of Instagram hashtags, the researchers created an overall popularity score and then ranked the palaces to reveal the 50 most famous palaces in the world.
Four UK palaces feature in the top 10; Buckingham Palace takes the top spot as the world’s most popular royal palace, followed by Windsor Castle in second place, Kensington Palace in third and Hampton Court Palace in seventh. Other palaces in the top 10 include the Palace of Versailles in France, Mysore Palace in India and Prague Castle in the Czech Republic.
In the second half of the top 20, another two UK palaces feature; Eltham Palace in 17th position and Holyrood Palace in 19th place. After Mysore Palace in fifth place, three more Indian palaces make the top 20 list; Umaid Bhawan Palace in 13th place, Falaknuma Palace in 14th position and Chowmahalla Palace takes 16th. France, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Portugal also feature in the top 20 ranking.
