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P A L Green Park How to get there CLARENCE HOUSE L The entrance is on GREEN PARK AL M E TH Buckingham C ONSTITUTION HILL ST JAMES’S PARK BUCKINGHAM Road. BUCKINGHAM G R O PALACE Ticket Office and S LK By Underground: V GE WA E State Rooms RDCA N BI O R Victoria, St James’s The Queen’s

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SPECIAL TOURS families Planning your visit AND VISITS Changing the Guard Opening times 2012 Admission prices 2012 The ceremony usually takes 30 June – 8 July and (including audio tour) Royal Day Out Exclusive Evening Tours place at 11.30 on alternate days, 31 July – 7 October 2012 Adult £18.00 Make the most of your day at This tour provides a special weather permitting. For more Open daily 09:45–18:30 Over 60/Student £16.50 ( ) Buckingham Palace with our opportunity to enjoy the State information, please telephone last admission 15:45 Under 17 £10.25 popular Royal Day Out ticket, Rooms once the doors have 020 7766 7300. Entry by timed ticket. Under 5 Free Family £47.00 offering admission to the closed to visitors. Your guide Royal Mews, The Queen’s Learn more about this ancient Access (2 adults, 3 under 17s) will introduce the history and ceremony on the new Royal Gallery and the State Rooms use of the State Rooms and the Advance tickets from at a discounted price. Collection app, which includes works of art on display. The tour an interactive map, interviews www.royalcollection.org.uk Please telephone 020 7766 7324 or 020 7766 7300 Your Royal Day Out will last ends with a glass of champagne with serving soldiers and a ‘Kids’ or visit www.royalcollection.org.uk (a booking fee applies) approximately 3.5 to 4 hours. served in the Bow Room. Zone’. Available from iTunes. The entrances to all three sites for further information. Top: Exclusive Evening Tour are located on Buckingham Right: Scots Guards Advance and on-the-day Visit the Royal Collection online Palace Road. Below: Highlights Garden Tour tickets can be purchased, subject to availability, from Explore the royal residences the Ticket Office at the Visitor Highlights Garden Tours Explore the Palace and enjoy the Collection at Entrance on Buckingham Palace www.royalcollection.org.uk. Enjoy a leisurely day out at Families can explore the Palace Road, open 09:30–16:30, Buckingham Palace and combine and garden with our activity Keep in touch 16–28 June and 09:00–17:00, a visit to the State Rooms trails and family audio tour, 29 June –7 October. o nes

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h o Left: The Family Activity Room a year if you buy your ticket and the Palace tennis court P where King George VI and directly from us. Simply ask us Fred Perry played in the 1930s. to stamp your ticket on your Garden Café first visit. State Rooms and Exclusive Admission Prices Royal Day Out Highlights Garden Tour Evening Tour At the end of a visit to the s e n i

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Far Left: The Queen at Buckingham Palace wearing the Diamond Diadem after her , 2 June, 1953 Left: Queen Victoria’s Fringe brooch, 1856, R&S Garrard Below Left: Chandelier Ear-rings, c.1930, Cartier Below: Queen Victoria’s Small Diamond Crown, 1870, R&S Garrard © PA

Above: Buckingham Palace exterior summer opening Left: Visitors in The Picture Gallery Below: The Room Bottom: Johannes Vermeer, A lady at the of the state rooms virginals with a gentleman, c.1662–5 30 june – 8 july and 31 july – 7 october 2012 Buckingham Palace serves as both the office and London residence of Her Majesty The Queen, as well as the Photographer: Jones Ian Diamonds administrative headquarters of the Royal Household. A Jubilee Celebration It is one of the few working royal remaining in During the summer, when the world today. the Palace is not being used In 2012 Her Majesty The Queen became only the in its official capacity, visitors can tour the magnificent State second sovereign in British history to have reigned Rooms. These are lavishly for 60 years. In celebration, this year’s spectacular Below: The White Drawing Room furnished with some of the exhibition will show the many ways in which diamonds greatest treasures from the have been used and worn by British monarchs over Royal Collection — paintings by the last 200 years. Rembrant, Rubens, Poussin and Canaletto; sculpture by Canova; exquisite examples of porcelain; Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration and some of the finest English includes a dazzling display of and French furniture. a number of The Queen’s personal diamond jewels — those inherited by Her Majesty or acquired during her reign. The exhibition also displays a number of historic objects to show the skill and ingenuity with which diamonds have been used over the centuries in different cultures and traditions. Photographer: Peter Smith Peter Photographer:

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