When it came to the long reign of Queen Victoria, however, the fate of the Pavilion was left to Parliament. Reflecting the general disdain felt towards the palace at this time, summed up by a mocking advert in Punch magazine under the heading "Rubbish for Sale," the building was gutted and the contents taken to other Royal palaces.
在藝評家的譏誚和社會的物議之下，喬治四世完成了他的夢土奇境，卻註定別宮備受爭議的命運。喬治四世死後，繼位的威廉四世就頗不以為然，其妻甚至在一場惡夢之後，堅持拆掉宴會廳那盞巨龍吐信的不祥之燈。