buckingham palace - Royal Collection Trust

Plan your visit
Opening times 2014
Admission prices 2014
26 July – 28 September
(Including audio tour)
Adult Over 60/Student Under 17 Under 5 Family (2 adults, 3 under 17s)
July and August
Open daily 09:30–19:30
(last admission 17:15)
September
Open daily 09:30–18:30
(last admission 16:15)
SPECIAL TOURS
AND VISITS
Green Park
The entrance is on
Buckingham Palace Road.
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Evening Tour
Adult
£34.50
£28.50
£75.00
Over 60/Student
£31.50
£25.70
£75.00
Under 17
£19.50
£17.00
£75.00
Free
Free
Free
£88.50
£74.00
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Entrance
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Buckingham Palace
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St James’s
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By bus: Number 11,
and 211, C1 or C10.
State Rooms and
Garden Highlights Tour
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Victoria, St James’s
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Travel
Royal Day Out
Family (2 adults,
3 under 17s)
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Below: Garden Highlights Tour
Enjoy a leisurely day out at
Buckingham Palace and
combine a visit to the State
Rooms with a guided tour of the
most remarkable features of the
garden. The tour includes the
3-acre lake, the Rose Garden,
the enormous Waterloo Vase
and the Palace tennis court,
where King George VI and
Fred Perry played in the 1930s.
Under 5
Enjoy free re-admission for a
year if you buy your ticket directly
from us.
Keep in touch
Top: Exclusive Evening Tour
Garden Highlights Tour
Admission Prices
Explore the royal residences
and enjoy the Collection at
www.royalcollection.org.uk.
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Your Royal Day Out will last
approximately 4 to 4½ hours.
The entrances to all three sites
are located on Buckingham
Palace Road.
The Royal Collection online
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Below: Garden Café
This tour provides a special
opportunity to enjoy the State
Rooms once the doors have
closed to visitors. Your guide
will introduce the history and
use of the Palace and the works
of art on display. The tour ends
with a glass of champagne
ser ved in the Bow Room.
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Above right: Scots Guards
Make the most of your day at
Buckingham Palace with our
popular Royal Day Out ticket,
offering admission to the
Royal Mews, The Queen’s
Gallery and the State Rooms
at a discounted price.
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Top: Children using the multimedia
guide in the Picture Gallery
The ceremony usually takes
place at 11:30 on alternate days,
weather permitting. Learn more
about the pageantry and
tradition by downloading the
Royal Collection Trust app,
Changing the Guard at
Buckingham Palace, which
includes an interactive map,
interviews with serving soldiers
and a ‘Kids’ Zone’. Available
from iTunes.
Exclusive Evening Tour
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At the end of a visit to the State
Rooms, the popular Garden
Café offers beautiful views
across the famous Palace lawn
and is the perfect place to enjoy
some light refreshments.
Changing the Guard
Royal Day Out
Advance and on-the-day tickets
can be purchased, subject to
availability, from the Ticket
Office at the Visitor Entrance
on Buckingham Palace Road,
open 16 July – 28 September,
09:00–17:00.
Pre-booking is required for
wheelchair users. Please
telephone +44 (0)20 7766 7324
or visit www.royalcollection.org.uk
for further access information.
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Garden Café
Photographer: Ian Jones
A new multimedia guide, full of
interesting facts and stories, as
well as videos and interactive
games, is available for families to
explore the Palace. Visitors with
children can also join in the fun
activities in the new Family
Pavilion open every day in July
and August, and at weekends
in September.
£19.75
£18.00
£11.25
Free
£50.75
summer opening of
the state rooms
Advance tickets from
www.royalcollection.org.uk
or +44 (0)20 7766 7300
(a booking fee applies).
Access
NEW Family Multimedia
Guide & Pavilion
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Victoria Station
Ticket Sales and Information Office
T. +44 (0)20 7766 7300
Groups (15+) +44 (0)20 7766 7321
www.royalcollection.org.uk
The income from your ticket contributes directly
to The Royal Collection Trust, a registered charity.
Admission to Buckingham Palace is managed
by The Royal Collection Trust, a charity
registered in England and Wales (1016972)
and in Scotland (SCO39772).
Cover: Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret riding a rocking horse, August 1932. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014
families
Includes the special exhibition
Royal Childhood
OFFICIAL RESIDENCE OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
Pawel Libera/ VisitBritain
This special exhibition, spanning more than
250 years, gives an unprecedented glimpse into
life as a young member of the royal family growing
up at Buckingham Palace.
26 JULY – 28 SEPTEMBER 2014
Photographer: Ian Jones
Buckingham Palace serves as both the office and London
residence of Her Majesty The Queen, as well as the
administrative headquarters of the Royal Household.
It is one of the few working royal palaces remaining in
the world today.
Royal Childhood brings together
well-loved toys, treasured family
gifts, tiny childhood outfits, and
previously unseen photographs
and film footage. The exhibition
includes the christening robes
worn by Prince George, a
miniature pedal car presented to
a young Prince Charles and a pair
of matching pink coats worn by
Princess Elizabeth and her sister
Princess Margaret, which can
be seen in a number of press
photographs taken during outings
with their mother. Two Parisian
dolls belonging to the Princesses
are also on display for the
first time.
Photographer: Peter Smith
Below: The White Drawing Room
During the summer, when the
Palace is not being used in its
official capacity, visitors can tour
the magnificent State Rooms.
These are furnished with some
of the greatest treasures from
the Royal Collection – paintings
by Rembrandt, Rubens and
Canaletto; sculpture by Canova;
exquisite examples of Sèvres
porcelain; and some of the finest
English and French furniture in
the world.
Above right: The Throne Room
Left: The Duchess
of Cambridge and
Prince George
after his christening,
23 October 2013
Top: Princess
Elizabeth and
Princess Margaret’s
Poupées Raynal
dolls, 1935
Top: Buckingham Palace exterior
Above left: Visitors in the Picture Gallery
Above: Prince Charles,
Prince Edward and
Princess Anne on
go-karts in the
Royal Mews, c.1969
© PA
summer opening
of the state rooms
Above: Sir Anthony van Dyck, Charles I
with M. de St Antoine, 1633
Right: Tri-ang
Centurion pedal
car first used by
Prince Charles,
c.1950
Above: Pink coats worn by
Princess Elizabeth and Princess
Margaret, c.1934. Smith & Co.
of Sloane Street