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Aug Sept daily 9.30am-4.15pm; ￡9.50; advance booking on tel 0171/930 4832. Victoria tube. The graceless colossus of Buckingham Palace, popularly known as Buck House, has served as the monarchs permanent London residence only since the accession of Victoria. Bought by George III in 1762, the building was overhauled by Nash in the late 1820s, and again by Aston Webb in time for George Vs coronation in 1913, producing a palace thats about as bland as its possible to be. For two months of the year, the hallowed portals are grudgingly nudged open; timed tickets are sold from the tent-like bo