Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret? (classic)
Jun 5, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 16 segments
An investigation into a mysterious room. A room that the most famous family in England apparently does not want you to see. Support the show!
Jun 5, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 16 segments
An investigation into a mysterious room. A room that the most famous family in England apparently does not want you to see. Support the show!
PJ VogtHostGarrett Graham
Ritik KhariaGuest
Heidi BlakeGuestChrisGuest
Ashley HicksGuest
When we started trying to answer this question almost two years ago, it's not that we thought it'd be easy, but frankly, it didn't seem that hard.
All we were seeking was a fact as small as, did the royal pool have a royal diving board? If so, was it one of the really big ones, like with a ladder? So we made our reporting plan.
First stop, the press office of the Royal Collection Trust, the organization that manages visitor access to Buckingham Palace.
We told them we were very interested in the architectural history of the palace, and asked if they could make a historian available for an interview.
We sent them over questions with our question about the pool artfully tucked towards the back, where we hoped it would not trigger alarms.
We said we just wanted to know if the palace had modern amenities, like perhaps a swimming pool, and if so, could they talk about that? At those two words, "swimming pool," they shut down like a pumpkin stand in November.
Shockingly, one person we knew had an old friend who had married into an obscure branch of the extended royal universe.
She and her spouse, a member of the royal household, had been to the palace many times, but neither had ever seen this pool.
There's lots of students, actually, who intern at the palace." And she said she knew at least one.
When we started trying to answer this question almost two years ago, it's not that we thought it'd be easy, but frankly, it didn't seem that hard.
All we were seeking was a fact as small as, did the royal pool have a royal diving board? If so, was it one of the really big ones, like with a ladder? So we made our reporting plan.
First stop, the press office of the Royal Collection Trust, the organization that manages visitor access to Buckingham Palace.
We told them we were very interested in the architectural history of the palace, and asked if they could make a historian available for an interview.
We sent them over questions with our question about the pool artfully tucked towards the back, where we hoped it would not trigger alarms.
We said we just wanted to know if the palace had modern amenities, like perhaps a swimming pool, and if so, could they talk about that? At those two words, "swimming pool," they shut down like a pumpkin stand in November.
Shockingly, one person we knew had an old friend who had married into an obscure branch of the extended royal universe.
She and her spouse, a member of the royal household, had been to the palace many times, but neither had ever seen this pool.
There's lots of students, actually, who intern at the palace." And she said she knew at least one.
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