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Group Visits & Private Tours 2013 BUCKINGHAM PALACE WINDSOR CastLE CLARENCE HOUSE FROGMORE HOUSE GROUP VISITS THE ROYAL MEWS PALACE OF HOLYROODHOUSE THE QUEEn’S GALLERY, LONDON THE QUEEn’S GALLERY, EDINBURGH & PRIVATE TOURS 2013 The Official Residences of The Queen The Official London Residence of The Prince of Wales Royal Collection Trust, a department of the Royal Household, is responsible for the care of the Royal Collection and manages the public opening of the official residences of The Queen. Income generated from admissions and from associated commercial activities Royal Collection Trust / © contributes directly to The Royal Collection Trust, a registered charity. The aims of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2012 The Trust are the care and conservation of the Royal Collection, and the promotion of The Royal Collection Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales access and enjoyment through exhibitions, publications, loans and educational programmes. (1016972) and in Scotland Royal Collection Trust’s work is undertaken without public funding of any kind. (SCO39772). WELCOME WHAT’S ON NEW FOR 2013 I am delighted to introduce you to EXHIBITIONS IN 2013/14 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF NEW SPECIAL Royal Collection Trust’s new programme of group visits and private tours. HER MAJESTY’S CORONATION GROUP VISITS London Your booking will make an important At the heart of the exhibition will be For the first time ever atWindsor Castle, contribution to the work of The Royal Collection In Fine Style Her Majesty’s spectacular Coronation groups may enjoy a talk and private Trust, a registered charity established in 1993 The Art of Tudor & Stuart Fashion Dress, designed by Norman Hartnell, viewing of Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House, under the chairmanship of His Royal Highness and the Coronation Robe, richly a masterpiece in miniature. The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace embroidered by the Royal School In Edinburgh, groups can explore the life The Prince of Wales. of Needlework. 10 May – 6 October 2013 of a fascinating monarch with a combined The income from your ticket and from any An unprecedented display of dress and visit to the Palace of Holyroodhouse purchase you make in our shops supports The Queen’s Coronation 1953 uniforms worn by other Members of the and the Mary, Queen of Scots exhibition The Trust’s work in conservation, research, Royal Family and the maids of honour, at the National Museum of Scotland. Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace together with works of art connected education, publishing and exhibitions, 3 August – 29 September 2013 with the Coronation, will be brought enabling the maximum possible enjoyment together for the first time since 1953. COACH-FRIENDLY of the Royal Collection. The Genius of Castiglione At Windsor Castle the exhibition GROUP SIZES To learn more about the work of The Queen: Portraits of a Monarch The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace presents a selection of official, the Royal Collection Trust, please visit 1 November 2013 – 16 March 2014 commissioned and informal portraits New for 2013, we have increased the www.royalcollection.org.uk from Her Majesty’s 60-year reign. maximum group size to a ‘coach-friendly’ The exhibition includes work by 54 people for several popular special Windsor Dorothy Wilding, Pietro Annigoni, and private visits. Exhibition Talks and As part of the Summer Opening of Cecil Beaton, Lucian Freud, Rankin, Great Kitchen to State Apartments Tours The Queen the State Rooms, Buckingham Palace, Annie Leibovitz and four colourful at Windsor Castle and Private Guided Portraits of a Monarch a special exhibition will mark the 60th screenprint portraits of The Queen Tours of Frogmore House can now anniversary of The Queen’s Coronation. by Andy Warhol. accommodate a full coach of group visitors. The Drawings Gallery, Windsor Castle Jonathan Marsden 23 November 2012 – 9 June 2013 Director of the Royal Collection ROYAL COLLECTION Edinburgh TRUST WEBSITE Cairo to Constantinople Royal Collection Trust has launched a Early Photographs of the Middle East new website, where planning and booking a group visit online is now easier than ever: The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse www.royalcollection.org.uk/groups. 8 March – 21 July 2013 To keep in touch and up to date with all the latest visits and tours, please subscribe Leonardo da Vinci to our groups e-Newsletter. The Mechanics of Man The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse 2 August – 10 November 2013 High Spirits GROUP AWARD The Comic Art of Thomas Rowlandson The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse We are delighted and proud that in 2012 22 November 2013 – 2 March 2014 Buckingham Palace was voted Best Attraction for Group Visits – Long Visit Cover image: The Queen welcomes well- wishers during a Diamond Jubilee visit to by readers of Group Travel Organiser Exeter city centre, 2 May 2012. © PA magazine. We greatly value the business Left above: Andy Warhol, Reigning Queens of group travel organisers and thank you (Royal Edition): Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, 1985. © DACS for your support. Left below: Cecil Beaton, Queen Elizabeth II, 2 June 1953 2 3 BUCKINGHAM PALACE Photographer: Peter Smith THE STATE ROOMS BUCKINGHAM PALACE Group Visit The State Rooms lie at the heart The Queen’s Coronation 1953, the special Opening times of the Palace and provide the setting exhibition at the Summer Opening, 3–31 August for ceremonial occasions and official presents a dazzling display of dress and Open daily 09:30–19:00 entertaining. uniforms worn by Members of the (last admission 16:45) Royal Family and the maids of honour on They are richly furnished with many Coronation Day. The centrepiece of the 1–29 September of the greatest treasures from the exhibition is Her Majesty’s magnificent Open daily 09:30–18:30 Royal Collection, including paintings Coronation Dress and Coronation Robe (last admission 15:45) by Van Dyck and Canaletto, sculpture (see page 3 for details). by Canova, exquisite pieces of Sèvres Price porcelain, and some of the finest English At the end of a visit to the State Rooms, and French furniture in the world. Buckingham Palace’s popular Garden Café Individual Group on the West Terrace is the perfect place Adult £19.00 £17.10 for groups to gather and enjoy views across the famous lawn. Over 60/Student £17.50 £15.75 Under 17 £10.85 £9.75 Price includes an audio tour in eight languages. Buckingham Palace serves as both the office and London residence Group size of Her Majesty The Queen. It is one of the few working royal palaces Minimum 15 remaining in the world today. During August and September, Opposite: The Queen meets guests at a reception for those who contributed to the 2012 celebrations Duration when the Palace is not being used in its official capacity, visitors can at Buckingham Palace, 16 October 2012 Above: The White Drawing Room 2 hours 30 minutes enjoy the nineteen magnificent State Rooms. © PA Left: The Garden Café, Buckingham Palace Direct booking line +44 (0)20 7766 7321 www.royalcollection.org.uk 5 THE STATE ROOMS AND GARDEN HIGHLIGHTS TOUR SPECIAL VISIT Enjoy a leisurely day out at Buckingham The 39-acre garden is today the setting for Availability Palace and combine a visit to the State The Queen’s Garden Parties. Described as 3 August – 29 September Rooms with a guided tour of the most ‘a walled oasis in the middle of London’, it Open daily 09:30 remarkable features of the famous garden. boasts more than 350 types of wild flower, (last admission 14:00) over 200 trees and a three-acre lake. The Garden Highlights Tour includes the beautiful Herbaceous Border, the Between the audio tour of the State Rooms Price wisteria-clad summer house and Rose and the guided tour of the garden, the Adult £25.00 Garden, the enormous Waterloo Vase itinerary allows time for your group to take and the Palace tennis court, where in the panoramic view of the lawn from the Over 60/Student £22.95 King George VI and Fred Perry played Garden Café and to visit the Garden shop. Under 17 £14.75 in the 1930s. Price includes an audio tour in eight languages of the State Rooms and a guided tour of the garden in English. Group size Photographer: Pawel Libera Photographer: Pawel Minimum 15 / maximum 26 Duration THE ROYAL MeWS 2 hours 30 minutes for the State Rooms; 45 minutes for the Garden Highlights Tour BUCKINGHAM PALACE Group Visit The Royal Mews, one of the finest The Queen for the State Opening of Opening times working stables in existence, has Parliament, is also on permanent display. Left: The Herbaceous Border, 1 February – 29 March and Buckingham Palace garden traditionally played an important role The horses stabled at the Mews are 1 November – 20 December Below: Garden Highlights Tour, in coronations and royal wedding Buckingham Palace garden Windsor Greys and Cleveland Bays, Open Monday to Saturday 10:00–16:00 celebrations. breeds chosen for their steady (last admission 15:15) On 2 June 1953, Her Majesty travelled temperament and stamina. As they may 30 March – 31 October to Westminster Abbey in the dazzling be on duty, undergoing training or having Open daily 10:00–17:00 Gold State Coach for her Coronation. a well-deserved rest away from London, (last admission 16:15) The beautifully restored coach has been the horses are not always on view. used at every coronation since that of Watch the Royal Mews prepare Price George IV in 1821. for the Royal Wedding in 2011 at Individual Group Among the other historic coaches and www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/ carriages on display is the luxurious royalmews/about Adult £8.50 £7.65 Australian State Coach, with central heating Over 60/ Student £7.75 £6.95 and electric windows, which carried The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh Under 17 £5.30 £4.75 from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Price includes an audio tour in eight languages Palace after the Royal Wedding in 2011.
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