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GROUP VISITS & PR I VAT E TOURS 2019 WELCOME FUTURE PROGRAMME I am delighted to introduce Royal Over the past few years we’ve been Collection Trust’s latest programme busy transforming the experience of of group visits and private tours. visiting Windsor Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse. In 2019 visitors will begin Your booking makes an important to enjoy the first of many improvements. contribution to the work of The Royal Collection Trust, a registered charity At Windsor Castle, the medieval established in 1993 under the chairmanship Undercroft will be transformed into of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. the Castle’s first permanent café. The Trust depends entirely on income The ground floor of the Castle will be from ticket and retail sales to fund its opened up, reinstating George IV’s work in conservation, research, education, entrance hall and giving visitors the publishing and exhibitions, enabling the chance to experience the State Entrance, maximum possible enjoyment of the where The Queen’s guests arrive. A new Royal Collection. Thanks to that income, introductory space will tell the story of the we have embarked on a series of major Castle’s 1,000-year history, and step-free projects at Windsor Castle and the access will be introduced throughout Palace of Holyroodhouse, known the visitor route. In 2020, improvement collectively as Future Programme, works to the Admissions Centre and and the completion of these works visitor facilities are due to be completed, will take place over the coming two together with a new dedicated Learning years. You can keep in touch and learn Centre within the Castle’s precincts. more about Royal Collection Trust at www.rct.uk. At the Palace of Holyroodhouse a new admissions centre will be completed, and there will be renewed displays of works of art from the Royal Collection. Looking further ahead, visitors will be able to explore a new public garden inspired by the earliest recorded gardens at the Palace, and the restoration of the historic Abbey Strand buildings will provide a new Learning Centre for schools, families, and adults. Tim Knox, Find out more and keep up to date at Director of the Royal Collection www.rct.uk/futureprogramme. © JL Gibbons Direct booking line +44 (0)303 123 7321 www.rct.uk 2 EXHIBITIONS AND VISITS AND EXHIBITIONS WHAT’S ON LONDON WINDSOR EDINBURGH BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROOMS, THE STATE BUCKINGHAM PALACE THE QUEEN’S GALLERY, WINDSOR CASTLE HOLYROODHOUSE PALACE OF GROUP VISIT GROUP VISIT GROUP VISIT GROUP VISIT The State Rooms The Queen’s Gallery Windsor Castle Palace of Holyroodhouse PAGE 6 PAGE 11 PAGE 16 PAGE 24 SPECIAL VISIT EXHIBITIONS PRIVATE VISITS SPECIAL VISIT The State Rooms and Garden NEW Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing Guided Tour of Windsor Castle Palace of Holyroodhouse and Highlights Tour NEW Russia: includes Russia, Royalty PAGE 17 Garden History Tour PAGE 7 PAGE 25 & the Romanovs and Roger Fenton’s SPECIAL VISITS BUCKINGHAM PALACE MEWS, THE ROYAL Photographs of the Crimea, 1855 Restoring Windsor: The Castle after the Fire PRIVATE VISIT NEW George IV: Art & Spectacle Guided Tour of the Palace of Holyroodhouse PAGES 11–12 NEW Royal Weddings at Windsor Windsor Castle and The Savill Garden PAGE 25 PRIVATE VISITS PAGES 18–19 HOLYROODHOUSE PALACE OF THE QUEEN’S GALLERY, NEW Morning Visit FROGMORE HOUSE Talk and Views PAGE 13 SPECIAL VISIT Exhibition Talks PAGE 13 GROUP VISIT The Royal Mews PAGE 9 EXHIBITIONS SPECIAL VISIT Charles II: Art & Power Frogmore House Russia, Royalty and the Romanovs PAGE 21 Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing PAGES 26–27 PRIVATE VISIT Guided Tour of Frogmore House GROUP VISIT PAGE 21 The Queen’s Gallery PAGE 27 SPECIAL VISIT Frogmore House and The Savill Garden PRIVATE VISIT PAGE 21 Talk and Views PAGE 27 GROUP VISIT Front cover: TRH The Duke Previous page (left): Palace of Holyroodhouse and and Duchess of Sussex on the Artist’s impression of the steps of St George’s Chapel, Physic Garden at the Palace The Queen’s Gallery Windsor Castle. © PA of Holyroodhouse PAGE 27 Direct booking line +44 (0)303 123 7321 www.rct.uk 3 PALACE BUCKINGHAM Watch the video Photographer: Peter Smith Direct booking line +44 (0)303 123 7321 www.rct.uk 4 HIGHLIGHTS 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 THRONE ROOM BALLROOM This room’s dramatic arch and canopy Queen Victoria ordered the world today. During August and September, over the thrones was the masterpiece construction of the enormous of the architect John Nash, and was Ballroom, the largest room in the when the Palace is not being used in greatly influenced by his background Palace. Originally named the ‘Ball and in theatre set design. Central to Concert Room’, it opened in 1856 the room is the pair of throne chairs with a ball to celebrate the end of the its official capacity, visitors can enjoy which were used for the coronation Crimean War. The Ballroom has been ceremony of The Queen and The at the centre of official entertaining the magnificent State Rooms. Duke of Edinburgh in 1953. The room ever since and is still used today for has also been used as the backdrop for State Banquets and investitures. royal wedding photographs. UK REGENTS CAMDEN PARK THE BRITISH MUSEUM PICTURE GALLERY WHITE DRAWING ROOM BUCKINGHAM CITY OF LONDON PALACE TRAFALGAR SQUARE TOWER Designed as a setting for George IV’s Among the most beautiful of the OF LONDON magnificent paintings collection, the Palace’s State Rooms, the White HYDE PARK Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace Drawing Room is a symphony of white BIG BEN displays some of the finest works in and gold. Incorporated into the room’s the Royal Collection. The hang is KENSINGTON design is a concealed door, allowing changed regularly, as The Queen members of the Royal Family to enter LONDON lends many paintings to exhibitions and leave the State Rooms discreetly WESTMINSTER A4/M4 TO LONDON around the UK and overseas. Among from the private areas beyond. HEATHROW AIRPORT the great artists represented are Previous page: Below left: Picture Gallery Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, State Dining Room Top: Ballroom 1KM Van Dyck and Claude. Above left: Throne Room Above: White Drawing Room Direct booking line +44 (0)303 123 7321 www.rct.uk 5 GROUP VISIT Opening times 20 July – 31 August Open daily 09:30–19:30 (last admission 17:15) 1–29 September Open daily 09:30–18:30 (last admission 16:15) Timed admission. Please book early to secure your preferred date and time. Price Individual Group Adult £25.00 £22.50 Over 60/ Student (with ID) £22.80 £20.50 Under 17/Disabled £14.00 £12.60 Price includes a multimedia tour in nine languages or a family multimedia tour in English. ©PA Group size The State Rooms at the heart of Together with Prince Albert, she Minimum 15 Buckingham Palace provide the made Buckingham Palace a rallying setting for ceremonial occasions point for the nation, a powerful symbol Duration and official entertaining, where of the British Monarchy, and a family 2 hours 30 minutes The Queen welcomes guests home for their nine children. from all walks of life. The rooms are furnished with many of the greatest treasures from the Royal Collection including paintings by Vermeer and Canaletto, sculpture by Canova, exquisite Sèvres porcelain and some of the finest English and French furniture in the world. Above: The Royal Family Left: Eugène Louis Lami, on the balcony at Buckingham The Grand Staircase at To celebrate the 200th anniversary Palace Buckingham Palace, State Ball, of Queen Victoria’s birth, a special 5 July 1848, 1848 exhibition, Queen Victoria’s Palace, Right: Blue Drawing Room will tell the story of how the young queen transformed Buckingham Watch an introductory video at Palace from a private house into www.rct.uk/ a working royal residence. buckinghampalacefilm Photographer: Peter Smith Direct booking line +44 (0)303 123 7321 www.rct.uk 6 SPECIAL VISIT Photographer: Ian JonesPhotographer: Ian Photographer: Sykes Christopher Simon THE STATE ROOMS AND Availability GARDEN HIGHLIGHTS TOUR 22 July – 29 September It was a Enjoy a leisurely day out at Open daily with timed admission Buckingham Palace and combine a privilege seeing visit to the State Rooms with a guided Price tour of the famous Palace garden. Individual Group The Garden Highlights Tour explains Adult £35.00 £31.50 the splendour the history of the garden, taking you Over 60/ to the beautiful Herbaceous Border, Student (with ID) £32.80 £29.50 and opulence the wisteria-clad summer house and Rose Garden, the enormous Under 17/Disabled £21.00 £18.80 first hand. Waterloo Vase and the Palace tennis Price includes a multimedia tour of the court, where King George VI and State Rooms in nine languages and a VISITOR, AUGUST 2018 Fred Perry played in the 1930s. guided tour of the garden in English. Between the multimedia tour of the Bookings must be paid by 1 July. State Rooms and the guided tour of Group size the garden, the itinerary allows time for your group to enjoy the panoramic Minimum 20 / maximum 26 view of the lawn from the Garden Duration Café and to visit the Garden Shop. Minimum 3 hours (2 hours 15 minutes Left: The Blue Drawing Room Above right: for the State Rooms, 45 minutes for Above: A Garden The Herbaceous Border the Garden Highlights Tour) Highlights Tour Direct booking line +44 (0)303 123 7321 www.rct.uk 7 THE ROYAL MEWS ROYAL THE The Royal Mews, one of the finest working stables in existence, is responsible for all road travel arrangements for The Queen and members of the Royal Family.
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