With lockdown lifted, Brits are looking forward to meeting their friends and family in parks and gardens again, and this year a rather unique picnicking venue has presented itself for your socially distant gatherings.
The Royal Collection Trust announced Wednesday that in addition to offering a select number of palace tours this year, they’ll be welcoming guests to Buckingham…
Royal Residences: A brief history of Buckingham Palace
20th December 2020
Learn more about Buckingham Palace, Her Majesty’s London residence, below:
Where is it located?
Buckingham Palace is located on The Mall in London. As it is the official and administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom, it is widely felt to be…
REVEALED: Buckingham Palace's unseen floor plans
18th May 2020
It’s one of the most recognisable buildings in the world and an iconic symbol of British royalty, but while the exterior of Buckingham Palace is familiar to us all, much of the inside remains a mystery … until now.
The official floor plans of the entire…
Buckingham Palace video shows Palace restoration project
18th February 2020
A new video from Buckingham Palace shows work being done to restore the iconic building. More specifically, the video shows how officials are working to preserve its historic nineteenth-century wallpaper in the Yellow Drawing Room.
The vital work will protect the wallpaper from getting damaged as nearby construction work continues as part of the Reservicing programme. Once the work is…
As Prince Albert reprimanded his second daughter, Princess Alice, for telling her eldest sister the Crown Princess, that their father’s illness had worsened, he said sadly (but correctly): ‘You did wrong. You should have told her I am dying’. The Prince’s fatalism…
JUST IN: Man detained in Buckingham Palace forecourt
10th July 2019
Buckingham Palace has confirmed that a man was detained in the early hours of this morning in Buckingham Palace’s forecourt.
The 22-year-old man is believed to have climbed over the fence from the Buckingham Palace Road side of the building; he was arrested just a few…
Music for a Queen: Mozart and Queen Charlotte
23rd June 2019
The first and only time that the boy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visited London occurred between 1764-5, at about the half-way point of the Mozart family’s monumental European Grand Tour, which was to prove pivotal in Wolfgang’s developmental process as a composer, the beginning proper of those childhood travels he would make on his path towards musical maturity.
Over the fifteen months that…
Want to plan garden parties? The Queen is hiring
5th June 2019
Fancy getting a front-row seat to some of the most exclusive occasions in the world? If you’ve got event planning experience, the Royal Household might just have the job for you. A vacancy for an events coordinator was posted on their website, and you don’t even…
The Queen attends her first Garden Party of 2019
22nd May 2019
Her Majesty The Queen has attended her first garden party of 2019. Her Majesty was accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester as well as the Duke of York, the Duke of Kent and Princess…
Sir Andy Murray has received his knighthood at Buckingham Palace. The tennis star was honoured by the Prince of Wales with his wife and parents watching on.
Sir Andy was given his knighthood in the New Year’s Honours List at the end of 2016 for services to tennis and to charity. The announcement came just months after he claimed his second Wimbledon men’s singles title and his second…