SPECIAL TOURS AND VISITS

PLAN YOUR VISIT

Opening times 2016

Admission prices 2016

23 July 2 October

(Including multimedia tour)

Adult
21.50
Over 60/Student
19.60
Under 17/Disabled
12.30
Under 5
Free
Family (2 adults, 3 under 17s) 55.30

July and August

Open daily 09:1519:30
(last admission 17:15)
September and October
Open daily 09:1518:30
(last admission 16:15)
Access
Pre-booking is required for
wheelchair users. Please telephone
+44 (0)303 123 7324 or visit
www.royalcollection.org.uk for
further access information.
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Pawel Libera/ Visit Britain

A multimedia tour, 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 Family
Pavilion open every day from
23 July 2 October.
Changing the Guard

At the end of a visit to the

State Rooms, visit the shop
for a spot of retail therapy or
enjoy the Caf, which offers
beautiful views across the
Palace lawn, a perfect place to
enjoy some light refreshment.

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 a Kids Zone.
Available from iTunes.

Photographer: David Cheskin

Garden Caf and Shop

A Royal Day Out ticket offers

admission to the Royal Mews,
The Queens Gallery and the
State Rooms, Buckingham
Palace at a discounted price.
Your Royal Day Out will last
approximately 4 to 4 hours.
The Queens Palaces
Celebrate Her Majesty
The Queens 90th birthday
and visit all three of her
official residences during
2016 at a discounted price.
Exclusive Evening Tour
Enjoy a special tour of the
State Rooms once the doors
have been closed to visitors,
with an expert guide and a
glass of champagne to end
the evening. See the website
for dates and prices.
Admission Prices

Top: Children
with the
multimedia tour

Above: Changing
the Guard
Left: The
Garden Caf

Photographer: Christopher Simon Sykes

Royal Day Out

Family Pavilion and

multimedia tour

The Queens
Palaces

Garden Highlights Tour

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.
Top: Exclusive
Evening Tour

Above: Garden
Highlights Tour

Royal
Day Out

State Rooms and

Garden Highlights Tour

Adult

48.00

37.00

30.50

Over 60/Student

43.00

33.80

27.50

Under 17/Disabled

29.00

20.80

18.20

Under 5
Family (2 adults, 3 under 17s)

Free

Free

Free

125.00

94.80

79.20

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BUCKINGHAM
PALACE
SUMMER OPENING OF
THE STATE ROOMS

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
13 July 2 October, 09:0017:30
(July and August), 09:0016:30
(September and October).

Enjoy free re-admission for a

year by asking us to treat your
ticket purchase as a donation.

How to get there

The entrance is on
Buckingham Palace Road.
By Underground:
Victoria, St Jamess
Park or Green Park.
By bus: Number 11,
and 211, C1 or C10.

Green Park

Entrance

GREEN PARK
CONSTITUTION
HIL

The Queens
Gallery

Entrance

ST JAMESS PARK

Entrance
Entrance

Buckingham Palace
Shop

Postcode: SW1A 1AA

www.royalcollection.org.uk/tickets
T. +44 (0)303 123 7300

(A transaction fee applies to telephone bookings)

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).

Royal Collection Trust / Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2016

FOR FAMILIES

OFFICIAL RESIDENCE OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN

SUMMER OPENING OF
THE STATE ROOMS

Right: A hat worn

for the wedding
of the Duke
and Duchess
of Cambridge,
Angela Kelly, 2011

23 JULY 2 OCTOBER 2016

Photographer: Peter Smith

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.

INCLUDED IN YOUR TICKET

The State Rooms

These are furnished with some

of the greatest treasures from
During the summer, when the
the Royal Collection including
Palace is not being used in its
official capacity, visitors can tour paintings by Rembrandt,
Rubens and Canaletto, and
the magnificent State Rooms.
some of the finest English and
French furniture in the world.
Above right:
The Coronation
of Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II

Below left:
Sir Anthony van Dyck,
Charles I and Henrietta
Maria with their two
eldest children, 1631-32

Below:
The White
Drawing Room

In celebration of The Queens 90th birthday,

experience the largest ever exhibition of
Her Majestys dress, with outfits from her
childhood to the present day.

Photographer: Peter Smith

Pawel Libera/ VisitBritain

Above:
The Blue
Drawing Room

See dazzling dresses, exquisite

hats and ceremonial dress
from momentous occasions
in The Queens life and the
nations history.
Highlights include the
Coronation Dress worn on
2 June 1953 and Her Majestys

wedding dress worn on

21 November 1947, as
well as an array of stunning
outfits from renowned
designers, including Sir
Norman Hartnell, Sir Hardy
Amies and Ian Thomas.
#Queenat90

Below left:
Evening dress,
Norman Hartnell,
1958
Below right:
The Queens
wedding dress,
Norman Hartnell,
1947