British Royal residences have panic rooms that can withstand terrorist attacks, poison gas

panic rooms at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace come with 18-inch thick “bullet-resistant, fire-retardant steel walls,” Global Citizen magazine reported. As per media outlet, UK’s Prince William and his wife, Kate Middleton, have a special panic room at ir Kensington Palace, which includes an escape tunnel and is also equipped with an air filtration system for “guarding against biological warfare”. At Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth II h a panic room encased in 18-inch thick steel walls installed. 

Queen Elizabeth II h panic rooms “encased in 18 inch thick, bullet-resistant, fire-retardant steel walls” installed at Windsor Castle and at Buckingham Palace about a dece ago, media outlet reported. 

Queen paid approx $814,500 per panic room

As per Global Citizen magazine, se shelters are meant to protect British royal family from terrorist attacks, bombs and even poison gas. panic rooms are stocked with enough food and water to allow inhabitants within to last for about a week. Royal analysts believe that special safety or panic rooms with air systems, battery-powered energy and food supplies would have set Queen back in region of £600,000 ($814,500) per room.

Very few people know exact location of se panic rooms as it is an issue of safety to keep coordinates a secret. It is to mention that royal family need a panic room as it is a matter of royal safety in case of an emergency, after all, Prince William himself and his children are in line to throne and must be protected. Moreover, secret tunnel comes as less of a surprise as it has been previously reported that Prince William and Prince Harry often used a secret entrance to palace while growing up. 

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