The Official Residences of the Queen the Official London Residence of the Prince of Wales CELEBRATING WELCOME 90 YEARS
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The Official Residences of The Queen The Official London Residence of The Prince of Wales CELEBRATING WELCOME 90 YEARS On 21 April 2016 Her Majesty The Queen In the year that Her Majesty celebrates her 90th birthday, and this special occasion celebrates her 90th birthday, will be marked with a unique exhibition Fashioning I am delighted to introduce you a Reign: 90 Years of Style from The Queen’s Wardrobe. to Royal Collection Trust’s latest For the first time, three different exhibitions on this programme of group visits and theme will be displayed at the Palace of Holyroodhouse private tours. (April – September), Buckingham Palace Your booking will make an important (August – September) and Windsor Castle contribution to the work of The Royal (September – December). Collection Trust, a registered charity established in 1993 under the chairmanship of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. The income from your ticket and from any purchase you make in our shops supports The Trust’s work in conservation, research, education, publishing and exhibitions, enabling the maximum possible enjoyment of the Royal Collection. To learn more about the work of Royal Collection Trust, please visit www.royalcollection.org.uk. Jonathan Marsden Director, Royal Collection Trust Front cover and left: A por trait of The Queen in Buckingham Palace by Cecil Beaton, 1968 WHAT’S ON EXHIBITIONS AND VISITS LONDON The State Rooms, The Royal Mews, Clarence House The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace Buckingham Palace Buckingham Palace Group and Private NEW Special Exhibition: Group and Special Visits available NEW Maria Merian’s Fashioning a Reign: Visits available See page 7 Butterflies 90 Years of Style from See page 6 NEW The Queen’s Wardrobe Scottish Artists 1750– 1900: From Caledonia Group and Special to the Continent Visits available See page 5 NEW Portrait of the Artist Group, Special and Private Visits available See pages 8–9 WINDSOR EDINBURGH Windsor Castle Frogmore House Palace of Holyroodhouse The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse NEW The King’s Man: Group, Special and NEW Last of the Tide Shakespeare and Private Visits available NEW Masters of the NEW the Royal Court See pages 16–17 Special Exhibition: Everyday: Dutch Artists Fashioning a Reign: in the Age of Vermeer NEW Special Exhibition: 90 Years of Style from Fashioning a Reign: The Queen’s Wardrobe NEW Painting Paradise: 90 Years of Style from The Art of the Garden Group, Special and The Queen’s Wardrobe Private Visits available Group, Special and Group, Special and See pages 19–21 Private Visits available Private Visits available See pages 22–23 See pages 11–15 Direct booking line +44 (0)30 3123 7321 www.royalcollection.org.uk 3 Photographer: Smith Peter Buckingham Palace serves as both the office and London residence of Her Majesty The Queen. It is one of the few working royal palaces remaining in the world today. During August and September, when the Palace is not being used in its official capacity, visitors can enjoy the nineteen magnificent State Rooms. BUCKINGHAM PALACE SPECIAL VISIT THE STATE ROOMS AND 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 history of the famous Palace garden. The Garden Highlights Tour includes the beautiful Herbaceous Border, the wisteria- clad summer house and Rose Garden, the enormous Waterloo Vase and the Palace tennis court, where King George VI and Fred Perry played in the 1930s. Between the multimedia tour of the State Rooms and the guided tour of the garden, the itinerary allows time for your © Will Hustler and Georgina Hustler group to take in the panoramic view of the lawn from the Garden Café and to GROUP VISIT visit the Garden Shop. THE STATE ROOMS Availability 1 August – 25 September BUCKINGHAM PALACE Open daily 09:30 (last admission 14:45) Price Adult £27.50 The State Rooms lie at the heart Opening times of the Palace and provide the setting Over 60/Student £24.80 30 July – 31 August for ceremonial occasions and Open daily 09:15–19:45 Under 17/Disabled £16.40 official entertaining. (last admission 17:15) Price includes a multimedia tour of the They are furnished with many of 1–25 September State Rooms in nine languages and a the greatest treasures from the Open daily 09:15–18:45 guided tour of the garden in English. Royal Collection, including paintings (last admission 16:15) by Rembrandt, Rubens and Canaletto, Group size sculpture by Canova, exquisite examples Timed admission. Please book early to of Sèvres porcelain, and some of the secure your preferred date and time. Minimum 15 / maximum 26 finest English and French furniture in the world. Price Duration Fashioning a Reign: 90 Years of Style Individual Group Minimum 3 hours (2 hours 15 minutes for the State Rooms, 45 minutes for from The Queen’s Wardrobe, the special Adult £21.50 £19.40 exhibition at the Summer Opening the Garden Highlights Tour) Over 60/Student £19.60 £17.70 of the Palace in 2016, tells the story Below: Visitors in the of Her Majesty The Queen’s reign Under 17/Disabled £12.30 £11.10 Buckingham Palace garden through the medium of fashion. From highlighting The Queen’s support of Price includes a multimedia tour in British designers, to the development nine languages or a family multimedia of her style through the decades, the tour in English. exhibition will show The Queen’s contribution to the evolution of Group size royal couture. Minimum 15 At the end of a visit to the State Rooms, Buckingham Palace’s popular Garden Café Duration is the perfect place for groups to gather 2 hours 30 minutes and enjoy views across the famous lawn. Opposite above: The Blue Drawing Room Opposite inset: A por trait of The Queen by Dorothy Wilding, 1952 Above: A por trait of Princess Elizabeth by Dorothy Wilding, 1946 CheskinPhotographer: David Direct booking line +44 (0)30 3123 7321 www.royalcollection.org.uk 5 © PA GROUP VISIT THE ROYAL MEWS, BUCKINGHAM PALACE The Royal Mews, one of the A combined ticket to The Queen’s Opening times finest working stables in existence, Gallery and the Royal Mews is available 1 February – 24 March and is responsible for all road travel for groups. Please enquire when 1–30 November arrangements for The Queen and making your booking. Open Monday to Saturday members of the Royal Family. Watch a film of the Diamond Jubilee 10:00–16:00 Among the historic coaches and State Coach at www.royalcollection. (last admission 15:15) carriages on display is the spectacular org.uk/diamond-jubilee-state-coach. 26 March – 31 October Diamond Jubilee State Coach, which Open daily 10:00–17:00 conveyed Her Majesty The Queen (last admission 16:15) to the State Opening of Parliament on 4 June 2014. Price The most dazzling of all is the Gold Individual Group State Coach, which has been used at every coronation since that of Adult £9.30 £8.40 George IV in 1821. Over 60/Student £8.50 £7.70 Under 17/Disabled £5.50 £5.00 Price includes a multimedia tour in nine languages or a family multimedia tour in English. Group size Minimum 15 Duration Above: The State Opening of Parliament, 4 June 2014 1 hour Right: The Gold State Coach 6 Direct booking line +44 (0)30 3123 7321 www.royalcollection.org.uk GROUP VISIT CLARENCE HOUSE Clarence House is one of the last Opening times remaining aristocratic townhouses 1–31 August in London and is the official residence Monday to Friday of TRH The Prince of Wales and 10:00–16:30 The Duchess of Cornwall. (last admission 15:30) Built between 1825 and 1827 to the Saturday, Sunday designs of John Nash, Clarence House 10:00 –17:30 takes its name from its first occupant, (last admission 16:30) William Henry, Duke of Clarence, later William IV. Price The arrangement of the rooms and Individual / Group the groupings of their contents remain much as they were in Queen Elizabeth Adult £10.00 The Queen Mother’s time, with Over 60/Student £10.00 important works from Her Majesty’s Photographer: Sykes Christopher Simon famous collection of art in their Under 17/Disabled £6.00 former positions. Price includes a guided tour in English. PRIVATE VISIT The tour takes in the five rooms on the ground floor where official Group size PR IVATE GUIDED engagements are undertaken by Minimum 15 / maximum 18 TOUR OF Their Royal Highnesses. Duration CLARENCE HOUSE Right: The Morning Room Below: The Prince of Wales 45 minutes and The Duchess of Cornwall on their annual visit to Scotland, 21 July 2014 For a very special visit to Clarence House, your group can book a private late- afternoon tour of this beautiful residence. The tour begins in the garden, where visitors can see the formal planting added by The Prince of Wales in memory of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. This exclusive guided tour includes the Cornwall Room, not seen on the Group Visit. The room is hung with 22 of The Prince of Wales’s watercolours painted between 1998 and 2006. The tour concludes with a glass of champagne and a view of the garden. Availability 1–31 August Monday and Tuesday, 16:30–18:00 Price £35 per person / minimum booking value £525 Price includes a guided tour in English, a guidebook and a glass of champagne. Group size Minimum 15 / maximum 40 (owing to space limitations, parties of over 20 people will be split into two groups on arrival, with entry 15 minutes apart) Duration © PA 1 hour 30 minutes 7 THE QUEEN’S GALLERY BUCKINGHAM PALACE EXHIBITIONS PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST 18 March – 15 April – 4 November 2016 – 9 October 2016 9 October 2016 23 April 2017 This is the first exhibition devoted In 1699, the German artist and This first ever exhibition to focus to Scottish art in the Royal Collection entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian on images of artists in the Royal and brings together paintings, drawings set sail with her eldest daughter for Collection includes both self-portraits and miniatures collected by monarchs Suriname in South America.