Peter Andre wants to modernise Buckingham Palace

31 January 2018

Peter Andre has admitted he'd love to renovate Buckingham Palace.

Peter Andre

The 44-year-old singer and television star has revealed he's keen to head into the official London residence of Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip, as he believes the stately home needs to be brought into the 21st century, with gadgets such as a "home-cinema room" and lights which are activated by a clap.

He said: "I'd love to go to into Buckingham Palace and give it a high-tech makeover. I want to modernise it and get the Queen kitted out with a projector and a home-cinema room. And she needs a chill-out zone. I'll programme her TV, so the only things that come on are our show and the news. I want her to have the clap! I mean [claps hands together] 'lights on'!"

And the 'Mysterious Girl' hitmaker doesn't think the 91-year-old monarch or her 96-year-old husband will have a problem with the added gadgets, as he believes the royal couple are already tech savvy.

When asked by Heat magazine if he thinks the Queen understands technology, Peter said: "Oh yeah. I beet you she's got her iPad and she's on it, mate. She definitely uses Amazon Prime."

However, Peter might run into problems, as it was previously revealed that the monarch has to rely on her grandchildren - including Prince William and Prince Harry - to do things for her "digitally".

During a Buckingham Palace garden party in 2016, an elderly woman named Barbara Wilkins spoke to the Queen, and said afterwards: "The queen was talking to me about young children and asked me if they had changed a lot.

"I said they are all digital these days and I said that instead of sitting at the dining room table having conversations like I did with my children they are all sitting on the settee with their teas on their knees watching television.

"She agreed. She said her grandchildren did things for her digitally but she didn't like them to be on their phones and computers all the time. She days they need social skills. She was like any other grandmother really."