In Popular Culture
The house was used for location shooting in the mystery adventure film National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007). Sequences supposedly occurring in Buckingham Palace were filmed in the house. In the historical drama film The Young Victoria (2009), the house was used for filming of scenes that purportedly took place within the ballroom, a passage and the reception room of Buckingham Palace. The house was used for a similar reason for the historical drama film The King's Speech (2010). It also appears as the house of Lady Bracknell in the comedy of manners film The Importance of Being Earnest (2002). The house was also used as the backdrop for Girls Aloud's video for their single Can't Speak French in 2008.
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