Originally conceived as a royal palace for visiting VIPs, the nearly-500-room hotel sits on 52 acres of gardens (complete with 600-year-old olive trees imported from Lebanon) and guests are chauffeured around in Cadillac golf carts.

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George, who built the Royal Pavilion as a pleasure palace, became king in 1820.

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That, and his experience as a wartime officer in the Royal Navy, meant that a clash with the stuffier members of the court at Buckingham Palace was inevitable.

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Our attention was then drawn to the roof of the palace, where 80s British band Madness sang "Our House" as a light projection transformed the imposing royal residence into a row of typical British terraced houses.

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