The palace, of course, is as expected and fantasti...

The palace, of course, is as expected and fantastic. My grief was with the 2 hour long wait, standing in line to get in, even though we purchased our tickets in advance online. The reason for the delay, we discovered, once we arrived at the front door was the fact that there was only one security scanner for the thousands of people trying to enter. Hours later when we left there were still hundreds of people in the same long line. And to top it off this "security lobby" was a new edition to the palace in 2016. It might have accommodated visitors in 1916, but not today.