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Royal Palaces The Royal Collection Historic Royal Palaces www.royalcollection.org.uk/ http://www.hrp.org.uk/HamptonCourtPalace/ Royal Palaces, Residences and Art Collection Historic Royal Palaces is an independent charity. The Royal Collection receives no Government funding or public subsidy. It is administered by Our aim is to help everyone explore the story of the Royal Collection Trust, a registered charity how monarchs and people have shaped set up by The Queen in 1993 under the society, in some of the greatest palaces ever chairmanship of The Prince of Wales. built. The role of the Royal Collection Trust is to Each of the five royal palaces in our care has ensure that the Collection is conserved and survived for hundreds of years. They have displayed to the highest standards and that witnessed peace and prosperity and splendid public understanding of and access to the periods of building and expansion, but they also Collection is increased through exhibition, share stories of more turbulent times, of war publication, education and a programme of and domestic strife, politics and revolution. loans. The most significant recent projects funded through the Royal Collection Trust are The palaces that Historic Royal Palaces are the new Queen’s Galleries in London and responsible for are all owned by The Queen “in Edinburgh to mark The Queen’s Golden Jubilee right of Crown”. This means that Her Majesty in 2002. holds the palaces in Trust for the next monarch and by law cannot sell, lease or otherwise Buckingham Palace dispose of any interest in the palaces. The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace Windsor Castle Although the palaces are owned by The Queen Frogmore House on behalf of the nation, we receive no funding Palace of Holyroodhouse from the Government or the Crown, so we The Queen's Gallery, Palace of depend on the support of our visitors, members, Holyroodhouse donors, volunteers and sponsors. Clarence House Tower of London Hampton Court Palace Kensinton Palace Kew Palace Banqueting House .
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